Opinion: Embryo editing for higher IQ is a fantasy. Embryo profiling for it is almost here
At least one company now offers prospective parents the ability to identify and avoid implanting embryos likely to have very low IQs. It's a slippery ethical slope to choosing those…
When He Jiankui announced that he had “edited” two embryos in hopes of ensuring they would become immune to the virus that causes AIDS, he also announced his opposition to using the same gene-editing technologies to enhance children’s IQs. As scientists were quick to point out, the pathways from genes to intelligence are just too complex for such enhancement to be feasible. For the foreseeable future, editing embryos to enhance IQ is a sci-fi fantasy.
A different approach aimed at enhancing IQ is far less fantastic. We’re calling it embryo profiling, and
