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They say that they can give parents who are pursuing IVF insight into their potential child's IQ, height, eye color, and a host of other traits so that parents can choose which embryos to implant based on that information.
If the information is wrong?
I think that's yet to be seen.
These companies, the embryo editing company Preventive, for one, it's far away, it says, from trying to bring a baby to term with this technology.
The company says, again, that it's focused on preclinical research.
It's focused on trying to prove the safety of embryo editing before it does anything else.
It says that it is focused on transparency and that it believes that it will act with high ethical standards going forward.
No, it's great that you asked that question.
We came knocking on their door.
When we started asking around about this company, people close to the company, we were trying to figure out what the company was doing.
A few weeks later, there was a brand new website post on the website rather saying we're preventive and we're here to edit embryos or at least research, research embryo editing.
When we went to Brian Armstrong for comment, he tweeted a few days later saying, I'm so excited to be an investor in preventive.
Hold on a second.
Back this up.
Yeah, I mean, I don't want to speculate about what kind of conversations were going on behind the scenes, but your summary of the timing is correct.
In CDC's judgment, the best public policy is to continue vaccination unchanged.
Are you on Getter yet?
No.
What are you waiting for?
It's free.