were used by Genomic Prediction in the case of Rafal, Thuy, and Aurea to indicate the likelihood of gene mutations among multiple embryos. They are also a marker used in other areas of biology to determine roughly how one organism’s genetic health compares to another’s. For example, polygenic scores are commonly used in animal and plant breeding to improve the chances of having healthy and resilient livestock and crops.
There are no guarantees in using this process: it can only be used as a forecast, because the score only compares to an average organism rather than testing for genetic links to disease in each individual. Neither does it take into consideration environmental factors.
Embryonic selection itself is nothing new. For around three decades, IVF clinicians have taken sperm and egg samples to grow into several embryos at once, before choosing the most promising-looking one for implantation in the uterus. Clinics already tend to screen against chromosomal abnormalities such as Down’s syndrome, but until recently the only other indicator they had to go by was the way one group of cells looked against the other—the selection was more or less arbitrary.
Companies such as Genomic Prediction are taking this process much further, giving parents the power to select the embryo they believe to have the best fighting chance of survival both in the womb and out in the world. At the time of writing, Genomic Prediction works with around 200 IVF clinics across six continents. For company cofounder Stephen Hsu, the idea behind preconception screening was no eureka moment, but something he and his peers developed gradually.
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I think people who are going through IVF aren’t looking to create some sort of superhuman, they’re just looking for the embryo with the best possible chance of survival to avoid more heartbreak. Speaking from experience.
gattaca af
Would Stephen Hawking have survived this?
God does not exist.
I think so.. 👀
This is straight up eugenics
Eugenics....
Whoo boy. The future is gonna suck.
Label me as playing god all you want. The risks of labor alone would compel me to take every measure available to assure a healthy infant, sans ticking bombs in their DNA, is born into the world.
Gattaca
You should check out JamieMetzl's HackingDarwin. We're building a BraveNewWorld
NIPS(NIPT) is not used in place of CVS or amnio. NIPS is a screening test not diagnostic. Also why no mention of the racial inequity with PRS scores? you not wanting to be honest how this is only affective for euro/white ppl? WIRED4eugenics GeneChat
This is not really playing God, more like killing off one's weaker offspring to focus on the healthier ones, which may be more convenient to raise Infanticide isn't an unfamiliar topic in history, it may just be making a subtler comeback
Playing God!! Why do we even bother doing science!!? Let god do everything.
There is no god, so you can't play god.
Honestly, they could hardly do a worse job of it than god did... if god existed, that is.
So you decided to publish this article now?
Would you buy a defective car and drive it knowing the brakes were going to fail after 500 miles? Use common sense. Do you like seeing others suffer? Use common sense already. It's a loaded question, only a sadist MAGAniac would want that.
Fuck yes they should
They should
God isn’t real
I do wonder Nature is meant to decide as maybe Karma due to the Past Lives idea , is possibly reason too as may be the cause...but naturally , only God can confirm..
What if that one is the fugly one tho?
There is nothing wrong in playing God. God itself doesn't exist, so someone has to do it.
Yes, you should. Who wouldn't want their children to have the best possible chance of not only surviving in this world, but thriving?
Sounds like a good thing, but it is another step closer to designer babies.
Of course they should if given that chance
this debate has been going on since genetic testing and IVF started, this is not new
We’ll God doesn’t appear to be jumping in and helping out. Why not prevent more cancer?
Where do we draw the line?
I suppose you could ignore the information...
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