I wondered, when I was a TBM, how our spirits were chosen to go to families based on our faithfulness in the pre-existence, This has to cause some dissonance amongst members, perhaps only older members, about Mormon doctrine/

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/health/eight-babies-born-uk-thanks-new-ivf-dna/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/16/eight-healthy-babies-born-after-ivf-using-dna-from-three-people

'Doctors in the UK have announced the birth of eight healthy babies after performing a groundbreaking procedure that creates IVF embryos with DNA from three people to prevent the children from inheriting incurable genetic disorders.

The mothers were all high risk for passing on life-threatening diseases to their babies due to mutations in their mitochondria, the tiny structures that sit inside cells and provide the power they need to function.

News of the births and the children’s health has been long-anticipated by doctors around the world after the UK changed the law to allow the procedure in 2015. The fertility regulator granted the first licence in 2017 to a fertility clinic at Newcastle University where doctors pioneered the technique.

The four boys and four girls, including one set of identical twins, were born to seven women and have no signs of the mitochondrial diseases they were at risk of inheriting. One further pregnancy is ongoing.'

Prof Doug Turnbull, who was part of the team that spent more than two decades developing the procedure, said the healthy births were reassuring for researchers and the families affected. “You are inevitably thinking it’s great for the patients and that is a relief,” he said.



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Woah. Thanks.

Interesting times!

Also CRISPR has been successful replacing parts of genes (genes associated with certain diseases) with a third party replacement.

Good news for inbred Mormons.

Some wealthy would-be parents are already attempting to breed "super babies."

They are forgetting that a junkyard mutt is more hardy than a purebred with a pedigree :)


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/orchid-polygenic-screening-embryos-fertility/mille Cohen/For The Washington Post)
George said Orchid gave them “a more complete picture” of their embryos' propensity for inherited hearing loss. Company founder Noor Siddiqui said, “I think everyone who wants to have a baby should be able to have one.” (Camille Cohen/For The Washington Post)

Experts have struggled to extract accurate genetic information from small embryonic samples, said Svetlana Yatsenko, a Stanford University pathology professor who specializes in clinical and research genetics. Genetic tests that use saliva or blood samples typically collect hundreds of thousands of cells. For its vastly smaller samples, Orchid uses a process called amplification, which creates copies of the DNA retrieved from the embryo. That process, Yatsenko said, can introduce major inaccuracies.

“You’re making many, many mistakes in the amplification,” she said, rendering it problematic to declare any embryo free of a particular disease, or positive for one. “It’s basically Russian roulette.”

George Church, a genomic sequencing pioneer at Harvard University and an Orchid investor, harbors no such doubts. Questioning the advancement that enables Orchid to sequence the full genome from such a small sample — enabling long-term health predictions and near-term defect detections in an embryo — is “like asking how much faster is a jet than walking,” Church said.