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yieldcrvtoday at 7:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

you can detect sex and defects in embryos now and select for them? Is this expensive?

I thought public policy was avoiding this specific thing for this specific reason, but I’ve been admittedly out of the loop


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Aboutplantstoday at 11:43 AM

Not that expensive actually

fragmedetoday at 9:51 AM

Yes, and they can do it at six weeks, too. Downs syndrome is the common thing to be avoided that they're testing for.