The American Society for Reproductive Medicine published a report that concludes preimplantation genetic testing for ...

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child's likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes - such as diabetes, heart ...

There’s a new type of genetic testing known as polygenic embryo screening which promises to identify the risk of developing conditions like cancer, obesity and autism. But researchers are cautious.

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child’s likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes — such as diabetes, heart ...

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are estimates of an individual’s susceptibility to a specific complex trait obtained by aggregating the effects of dozens, thousands, and potentially millions of genetic ...

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity,... Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should ...

If the last two decades have taught us anything, it is that the slippery slope is indeed slippery. What society once naturally recoiled from—designer babies, artificial wombs, and the termination of ...

US biotech firm Nucleus Genomics this week launched a first-of-its-kind service letting IVF parents select embryos based on their potential disease risk. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s … genetic ...

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These ...