Newest releases from Nucleus and Herasight
Things are moving fast in the embryo selection sector. There was never really any technological barriers here the last 10+ years, just the usual social taboos and various incompetent people…
Herasight publishes their validation of IQ PGS; Nucleus open sources their models
There's two exciting news today in embryo selection. The technology is finally moving forward at an appreciable rate. Maybe we are not dysgenics doomed after all. First off, Herasight --…
Proper embryo selection just landed
Today is an exciting day. First, the HHS announced a more open data policy (in the direction of my suggestions), and second and more importantly, a new company just went…
Is IVF dysgenic?
One of the concerns that conservatives sometimes bring up is that while it is true that using IVF/ART (in vitro fertilization/assisted reproductive technologies) can have a eugenic effect if they…
Will USA cease to be a safe space for embryo selection?
You may have heard about the new Supreme Court of Alabama decision. You can read the full decision here, which I did (130 pages). The case is straightforward enough: Facts…
Embryo selection can become the norm
In discussion of my recent book review of The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution, J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles questioned whether embryo selection could really become powerful enough…
Can we pick the best sperm?
A lot of people are interested in embryo selection. Why? When people reproduce through IVF, they will generate more than one viable embryo. Which one to choose? The general approach…
Who supports biotech eugenics?
Naturally, you've heard that eugenics is something that evil people, in fact, Nazis support. So, which country has more Nazis? PEW research was kind enough to ask a bunch of…
Book review: What We Owe the Future, 2022, by William MacAskill
While I am no longer the philosophy blogger I once was, I do occasionally read philosophy that's got something to do with science. I saw some references to this book…
Older fathers bad, paternal age effects vindicated?
Since the 1930s, people are getting older and older before having children, as the importance of careers and education to people seems to increase without stop. As older people are…