Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child's likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes - such as diabetes, heart ...

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child’s likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes — such as diabetes, heart ...

Human embryo screening undermines parental trust, stigmatizes disability, narrows genetic diversity, and erodes the foundation of unconditional love. Artificial intelligence compounds these dangers by ...

There’s a new type of genetic testing known as polygenic embryo screening which promises to identify the risk of developing conditions like cancer, obesity and autism. But researchers are cautious.

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 ...

Wealthy British couples are paying tens of thousands of dollars to overseas firms to rank their IVF embryos for predicted intelligence, height, and disease risk, utilizing a legal gap that UK ...

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are estimates of an individual’s susceptibility to a specific complex trait obtained by aggregating the effects of dozens, thousands, and potentially millions of genetic ...

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 ...

US biotech firm Nucleus Genomics this week launched a first-of-its-kind service letting IVF parents select embryos based on their potential disease risk. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s … genetic ...

A group of well-heeled, 30-something women sat down to dinner last spring at a table set with pregnancy-friendly mocktails and orchids, ready to hear a talk about how to optimize their offspring. Noor ...

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 ...