Digital embryos help identify the genetic characteristics of children

New technology creates digital embryos by mixing DNA with parents, helping prospective parents know the health and genetic characteristics of a baby before deciding to have children.

Matchright technology can allow customers to select sperm donors and eliminate inappropriate people, by creating a digital version of an unborn child and identifying the risk of developing a disease. transmission.

New technique to allow testing of illness in unborn children - (Photo: Shutterstock)

New technology, which will be introduced at two infertility clinics in the US later this month, may also reveal information such as the eye color and skin of a future child, as well as height and waist size. .

'It can report any disease or body shape characteristics under genetic action,' said Princeton University's Lee Silver, co-founder of GenePeeks - the technology promoter.

GenePeeks intends to use the system to look for genetic conditions such as cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs syndrome (damage nerve cells that cause mental and physical problems), to appear. when both parents carry a mutation on a particular gene.

According to New Scientist, Matchright's algorithm can create up to 10,000 embryos per pair of sperm / eggs, thereby helping to detect mutations in genes that can cause about 500 rare diseases.