Showing posts with label biotech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biotech. Show all posts
Monday, February 05, 2024

Superhumans and the Race for AI Supremacy - Hidden Forces podcast Episode 351

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  I've been listening to Hidden Forces with Demetri Kofinas for years now. He's an excellent interviewer with interests in finance, ...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Times of Israel on Polygenic Embryo Screening

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This is a very nice article on polygenic embryo screening and its prospects in Israel. Worth reading in full. Leading statistical genetici...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Jeffrey Sachs: Lessons from the COVID Commission, Lab Leak Questions, and Nord Stream — Manifold Episode 21

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  Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable develo...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Sibling Variation in Phenotype and Genotype: Polygenic Trait Distributions and DNA Recombination Mapping with UK Biobank and IVF Family Data (medRxiv)

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This is a new paper which uses Genomic Prediction IVF family data, including genotyped embryo samples. Sibling Variation in Phenotype and G...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Lunar Society (Dwarkesh Patel) Interview

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  Dwarkesh did a fantastic job with this interview. He read the scientific papers on genomic prediction and his questions are very insightfu...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

WIRED: Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos

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This is a balanced and informative article in WIRED, excerpted from author Rachael Pells' forthcoming book ,  Genomics: How Genome Seque...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Polygenic Health Index, General Health, and Disease Risk

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See published version:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22637-8 Informal summary : We built a polygenic health index using risk p...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Genomic Prediction on WHYY The Pulse

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This 20 minute podcast segment is very well done. Congratulations to science journalist Teresa Carey.     Startup offers genetic testing ...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Genomic Prediction in Bloomberg

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A nice article in Bloomberg describing polygenic embryo selection in IVF: DNA Testing for Embryos Promises to Predict Genetic Diseases ,...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: Making superhumans will be possible (Sunday Times podcast)

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  Danny Fortson (Sunday Times) is based in Silicon Valley and has a regular podcast on technology. I really enjoyed this conversation. Gen...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

ManifoldOne Podcast Episode #5: Shai Carmi (Hebrew University): Polygenic risk scores & embryo screening

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  Shai Carmi is Professor of Statistical and Medical Genetics at Hebrew University (Jerusalem).  Carmi Lab: https://scarmilab.org/   Twitter...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

ManifoldOne podcast Episode#2: Steve Hsu Q&A

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  Steve answers questions about recent progress in AI/ML prediction of complex traits from DNA, and applications in embryo selection.  Highl...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy: New Methods and Higher Pregnancy Rates (re-post with video)

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The post below appeared originally November 1 2021, just after the annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting in October. T...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Elizabeth Carr: First US IVF baby and Genomic Prediction patient advocate (The Sunday Times podcast)

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I don't have an embed link so click here to listen to the podcast. Genomic Prediction’s Elizabeth Carr: “Scoring embryos”    The Sun...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy: New Methods and Higher Pregnancy Rates

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[ NOTE ADDED NOVEMBER 12 2021: Research seminar videos from ASRM are embargoed until 12/31. So this video will not be available until then. ...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Embryo Screening and Risk Calculus

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Over the weekend The Guardian and The Times (UK) both ran articles on embryo selection.  Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is i...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate (Bloomberg Technology)

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Bloomberg Technology covers polygenic embryo screening. Note, baby Aurea is well over a year old now.  I am informed by Genomic Prediction...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations (Genes 2021 Special Issue)

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It is a great honor to co-author a paper with Simon Fishel , the last surviving member of the team that produced the first IVF baby (Louise ...