The study announced in the Scientific Reports journal was conducted by a medical research team at Imperial College London. The study utilized a newly developed testing technique for identifying gene expressions in blood. The study use this method to analyze blood drawn from babies with neurologic brain damage from oxygen loss and blood drawn from healthy babies. The analysis determined that they were certain abnormal “gene expressions” in the blood of those babies born with neurologic injuries. This means that doctors can use a blood test to identify babies with possible brain damage during childbirth.