Genetics Startup Sells Test to Rank Embryos by IQ, Height and Looks

https://ijr.com/you-can-even-name-your-embryo-genetics-startup-sells-test-to-rank-embryos-by-iq-height-and-looks/

by bookofjoe • 1 year ago

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duxup• 1 year ago

by projected IQ, height, eye color and nearly 900 health-related traits before deciding which to implant.

Getting closer to GATTACA ... https://youtu.be/wY_0u84DtXY?t=35

codeddesign• 1 year ago

“Startup makes eugenics available to consumers”.

I’m personally fine with this, but let’s call it what it is.

gizmondo• 1 year ago

Screening for the Down syndrome has been available to consumers for a long time, it's eugenics in exactly the same way. While technically correct, I think in practice this term is only used by despicable people to tar these great ideas with the guilt-by-association.

cafard• 1 year ago

Years ago I read that Shockley was not that impressed by his own offspring, but blamed this on their mother or mothers.

IronyMan100• 1 year ago

Apparently Shokley was a better physicit than a father or husband or Manager. In Chip War Chris Miller writes that Shockley was such a Bad Manager that his employees left and founded Fairchild Semiconductor.

Genetics Startup Sells Test to Rank Embryos by IQ, Height and Looks

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