{"id":416,"date":"2019-11-09T07:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2019-11-09T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T15:02:37","slug":"the-worlds-first-gattaca-baby-tests-are-finally-here-mit-technology-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/09\/the-worlds-first-gattaca-baby-tests-are-finally-here-mit-technology-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here &#8211; MIT Technology Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span class=\"jsx-671803276\">Handed report cards on a batch of frozen embryos, parents can use the test results to try to choose the healthiest ones. The grades include risk estimates for diabetes, heart attacks, and five types of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"jsx-671803276\"><span class=\"jsx-671803276\">According to flyers distributed by the company, it will also warn clients about any embryo predicted to become a person who is among the shortest 2% of the population, or who is in the lowest 2% in intelligence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614690\/polygenic-score-ivf-embryo-dna-tests-genomic-prediction-gattaca\/\">The world\u2019s first Gattaca baby tests are finally here &#8211; MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Handed report cards on a batch of frozen embryos, parents can use the test results to try to choose the healthiest ones. The grades include risk estimates for diabetes, heart attacks, and five types of cancer. According to flyers distributed by the company, it will also warn clients about any embryo predicted to become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology","category-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}