Yo, technology. What is it all about?

If you've gone through hell and high water to have a child and then not know, in my mind,

if you have good odds or bad odds, you know, being able to look at the, mitigating the risk.

I'm not saying like we are eliminating it, right?

We're just telling you, based on all of the information we have,

these are the least risky embryos or embryo that you could move forward with.

There are going to be potentially profound consequences if people start selecting on skin tone and hair color and eye color.

You know, it could reinforce certain stigmas.

There are going to be things that are unintended consequences that we can't foresee at this point.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly podcast from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

How is everybody? I'm feeling good, fighting fit. I took last week off, obviously. For Thanksgiving, i ate and eight and eight and i saw family and of course i took part in the classic holiday ritual of running through the

airport with way too many bags child care paraphernalia hanging off all appendages masked as well of

course and trying to get a five-year-old and a three-year-old to keep their masks on.

Super fun, that aspect of it.

I highly recommend it.

But anyhow, it's back.

I'm feeling good, feeling great,

and I'm here this week to talk, of course, about designer babies.

So there's a startup called Genomic Prediction. There's actually

several startups working on this, but genomic prediction is who we're going to talk about today.

And what it does is it analyzes embryos that have been created in vitro. And it screens them

for an extraordinary number of diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes, hard disease,

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