Thursday, November 15, 2007

Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)

PGD

This procedure is growing in popularity, and with the human genome fully sequenced, this technology could currently be used to select embryos of a certain sex or those lacking genes predisposing to obesity, etc.

1 comment:

Zach said...

Eugenics of this sort is already common in the form of prenatal testing (90% of the detected chromosomal abnormalities are aborted). Although this lets you target individual genes.