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Gene-based embryo selection: Are ‘designer babies’ on the horizon?
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Gene-based embryo selection: Are ‘designer babies’ on the horizon?

by Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter  The notion of parents picking out genetically perfect babies may seem like science fiction, but bioethicists warn in a new report that some companies have already started to offer couples going through in vitro fertilization (IVF) the means to pick better embryos through polygenic scoring. Polygenic scores are a “weighted...