First Baby Born After Full Genetic Screen Link

Remember the movie Gattaca? I guess we’re there now.

“At some point in the not too distant future, prospective parents will have the technical ability to look at the genome of their embryos and select embryos based on the traits they see, whether those are disease traits, cosmetic traits, behavioural traits, or boy or a girl,” says Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University in California.