{"id":73855,"date":"2017-11-18T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/eugenics-2-0-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos"},"modified":"2017-11-18T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T20:22:23","slug":"eugenics-2-0-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/eugenics-2-0-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics 2.0: We\u2019re at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eugenics-2-0-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It\u2019s a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the environment plays a role too.<\/p>\n<p>So you don\u2019t know who will get it. Treff\u2019s grandfather had it, and lost a leg. But Treff\u2019s three young kids are fine, so far. He\u2019s crossing his fingers they won\u2019t develop it later.<\/p>\n<p>Now Treff, an in vitro fertilization specialist, is working on a radical way to change the odds. Using a combination of computer models and DNA tests, the startup company he\u2019s working with, <a href=\"http:\/\/genomicprediction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genomic Prediction<\/a>, thinks it has a way of predicting which IVF embryos in a laboratory dish would be most likely to develop type 1 diabetes or other complex diseases. Armed with such statistical scorecards, doctors and parents could huddle and choose to avoid embryos with failing grades.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2017\/11\/18\/eugenics-2-0-were-at-the-dawn-of-choosing-embryos-by-health-height-and-more\/\">https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2017\/11\/18\/eugenics-2&#45;0...-and-more\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It\u2019s a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the environment plays a role too. So you don\u2019t know who will get it. Treff\u2019s grandfather had it, and lost a leg. But Treff\u2019s three young [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}