A few companies now offer embryo screening based on polygenic trait scores (aggregated across thousands of genetic variants), and @herasight is the best at predicting most traits. For parents who want the best chance of having a healthy, happy kid, this will be a big deal.
Alex Strudwick Young
Alex Strudwick Young30.7.2025
I’ve been working with an IVF startup, @herasight, that has already screened hundreds of embryos. Today we come out of stealth with a paper showing that our predictors for 17 diseases — validated within-family — beat the competition, with improved performance in non-Europeans🧵
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