Want to pick your smartest embryos? A Chinese company will let you do that soon

01/14/2014 - 00:00

Gwynn Guilford

No one knows what genes make people smart. But the chance to figure that out is just kind of hanging there: 50-80% of what determines IQ is thought to be inherited. Shenzhen-based BGI is seizing that opportunity. Its cognitive genomics division is mapping the genes (pdf) of math geniuses.

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