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Sam Trejo

New tech allows parents to 'score' IVF embryos for desirable traits — and it's in desperate need of regulation

Illustration of an egg cell being fertilized through IVF with a strand of DNA superimposed on it.

"If I give you a diagnostic tool that lets you end up with a kid that has a three times higher chance of getting admitted to MIT, I think people are going to be interested."

Although it sounds like a line from a sci-fi movie, this is actually a quote from Steve Hsu, a physics professor at Michigan State University and co-founder of Genomic Prediction, a company that offers parents a new technology called polygenic embryo selection.

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