children and their parents within one year. These are families who are cared for in the intensive care units of the pediatric clinic of the MHH and in other hospitals in Lower Saxony. In the study, the [...] his team are focusing on a special patient group: children in their first weeks and -months of life who are so ill that they need to be treated in an intensive care unit. "The cause of their symptoms is [...] takes years before the correct diagnosis is found. Can the treatment of seriously ill children be improved by rapid genetic diagnosis? This question is being investigated by a team from Pediatrics and Human