A patent for creating virtual embryos by mixing DNA to screen out genetic disorders – and select non-medical traits. bit.ly/1eBPxpg Before a woman selects a donor from a participating fertility clinic, the Matchright algorithms, which Silver developed, are run thousands of times for each donor. This produces up to 10,000 simulated embryos per pairing. These are sequenced to look for mutations in single genes that can cause some 500 rare diseases, and then used to work out the disease risk in the hypothetical child that would develop from that particular partnership. The woman, who pays $1995 for the service, then gets a list of safer donors from which to choose. geneticsandsociety.org/img/original/peeking4babies.jpg
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:53:51 +0000
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