This App Can Diagnose Rare Diseases From a Child's Face

In 2012, Moti Shniberg sold his face recognition startup to Facebook and started looking for a new challenge. "We wanted to take our expertise and do something good," he says. Then he met the head of a medical genetics center, who explained the difficulty of diagnosing rare genetic disorders in children. Specialists sometimes use the shape and appearance of a child's face as a clue because some conditions, such as Down syndrome, give a child's face a distinctive appearance. For many other diseases, however, the signs are more subtle, and the cases very rare.