Super-Expensive Startup “Screening” Parents’ Embryos for IQ

Image by Getty / FuturismA US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to “screen” embryos they conceive for their IQs, according to startling new reporting from The Guardian.Details of the secretive startup were largely revealed by undercover video footage collected by a UK-based advocacy group called Hope Not Hate, with further research conducted by the Guardian. The covertly collected videos reveal company officials openly bragging that their controversial genetic screening tactics can boost a future child’s IQ by upwards of six points.To be clear,…

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