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by rlanday
3049 days ago
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Even embryo selection and genomic prediction alone gets you pretty far if you’re willing to discard a lot of embryos (is it possible to read the DNA out of sperm and egg cells non-destructively? I don’t know much about the technology involved). Just fertilize a bunch of embryos and discard all of them except the top few (selected on e.g. some weighted combination of height, intelligence, and whatever else you can predict). Then your kids will be overwhelming likely to be taller and smarter (and whatever else you selected for) than if you’d just picked embryos at random. |
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No. Who knows what the future will bring, though? There's already some neat new CRISPR-based methods for detecting DNA and viruses etc which were published the other day.