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'Some of them have accuracy that's close to zero': Experts unpack the promise and pitfalls of genetic tests aimed at consumers
Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable parents to "score" and "select" IVF embryos.
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These ...
If the last two decades have taught us anything, it is that the slippery slope is indeed slippery. What society once naturally recoiled from—designer babies, artificial wombs, and the termination of ...
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New tech allows parents to 'score' IVF embryos for desirable traits — and it's in desperate need of regulation
Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF. But the technology is dangerously underregulated.
Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic ...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity,... Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should ...
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