{"id":98307,"date":"2019-11-09T01:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/dna-test-startup-claims-it-can-spot-embryos-with-low-intelligence"},"modified":"2019-11-09T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T09:02:47","slug":"dna-test-startup-claims-it-can-spot-embryos-with-low-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/dna-test-startup-claims-it-can-spot-embryos-with-low-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"DNA Test Startup Claims It Can Spot Embryos With Low Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-test-startup-claims-it-can-spot-embryos-with-low-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questionable startups are claiming to be able to determine how smart a frozen IVF embryo will become if carried to term, and parents are taking the bait.<\/p>\n<p>Genomic Prediction, the most prominent of these companies, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/embryonic-genetic-tests-intelligence\">offers tests<\/a> to scan embryos for genetic diseases and other conditions \u2014 as well as genetic indicators that a future child will be in the bottom two percent of intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>And <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614690\/polygenic-score-ivf-embryo-dna-tests-genomic-prediction-gattaca\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614690\/polygenic-score-ivf-embryo-dna-tests-genomic-prediction-gattaca\/\">reports<\/a> that Genomic Prediction co-founder Stephen Hsu often uses media appearances to discuss future plans for a general intelligence test \u2014 something that, with current tech, is <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/super-smart-designer-babies-wont-work\">extremely unlikely<\/a> to actually work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questionable startups are claiming to be able to determine how smart a frozen IVF embryo will become if carried to term, and parents are taking the bait. Genomic Prediction, the most prominent of these companies, offers tests to scan embryos for genetic diseases and other conditions \u2014 as well as genetic indicators that a future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98307","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}