Greetings and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, August

21st, 2025.

Today's daily article is written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins.

Parents in Silicon Valley are spending up to $50,000 for new genetic testing services that include promises to screen embryos for high IQ.

In related news, a Chinese scientist who, six years ago, created the world's first gene-edited babies,

has now set up a company in the U.S.

He's calling the Walmart of gene editing to produce high- IQ babies.

A woman who is briefly married to this scientist is also creating a company in New York City

to compete with him in creating gene-edited babies.

Moral questions abound, of course,

from the ethics of altering genes in ways that will be inherited

and thus alter the species to the fairness of using technology

to benefit only those who can pay to the wisdom of modifying genetics

without knowing the unintended consequences of such

experimentation. Here's what no one seems to be asking, however. Are the embryos being tested and

modified human? No one is asking because the answer is so obvious. And this fact points to the

truth I want to highlight today. First, let's consider

a second story in the same context. An article recently published on NPR begins this way, quote,

for the first time, scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting into a womb in real time. A feat, the researchers hope, will lead to

new ways to treat infertility and prevent miscarriages. In quote, the story quotes Samuel

Ojo Negros, head of bioengineering in reproductive health at the Institute of Bioengineering of

Catalonia in Spain.

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