technologyreview.com/s/614690/polyg…
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Another picture of exemplar reports, this time with two embryos. Because you would be comparing them, and selecting the "best"...though what that means is up for debate.
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"She has your partner's ears and smile. Just not their risk for diabetes."
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Is this a designer baby?
What makes this designer-y is that its elective, costs money and isnt available to all (i.e. if uninformed, unwilling, or without the $$ for IVF +_ test)
I would say just the newest step in consumer eugenics.
He concluded on average 2.5 cm and 2.5 IQ points. But often you'd pick wrong, too.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
But the conclusion that embryo selection isnt plausible is a claim much bigger than the Israeli research made.
Half the world is saying that just can't be. The other half is saying the predictions are surprisingly decent.
Here's a story and a thread about that.
docnyc.net/film/human-nat…
accuracy reduced "in demographics different than the causcasian training set."
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