Fetal Screening for Baby IQ Test: Call it a miracle of science or man’s stubbornness that the child has not even been born yet and his entire birth chart has been published. People may have less faith in astrology, but what will they call it when science starts doing this. Now the same thing is happening. An American startup company is offering to the parents of a child that it will tell them about the intelligence of their unborn child during pregnancy itself. Leave aside pregnancy, the company is claiming to tell the intelligence or IQ of the child at the time of placing the fetus in the stomach. Although she is doing this work secretly. The British News Guardian has exposed this. Criticism has also started regarding this. Experts believe that such work can ignore ethical issues and can also pose a danger in the future.
Desire for a disease-free, smart and healthy child
In the video that has surfaced, Heliospect Genomics company has claimed that it is doing such work with more than a dozen couples undergoing IVF process. According to the intelligence video, the company is charging up to 50 thousand dollars from customers for this. This includes about 100 customers willing to get their embryos tested. The company claims that based on the information about the genes present in the embryo, it can predict which embryos may be more intelligent in the future. The company is also promoting it secretly among couples. An employee of the company was proudly saying that we could rank the qualities of 100 embryos. The couple is ready for this, in fact they are so curious that they want to know their child’s gender, height, weight, intelligence etc. on the basis of these ranks. They even want to know whether the child will have any mental illness. Michelle Christensen, Denmark-based CEO of Heliospect, says that everyone wants that their child should not have any illness, he should be smart, healthy and intelligent. If this happens then it is very good.
How do you make such predictions?
Heliospect Genomics claims to be able to determine fetal IQ based on the study of genes. This claim is based on the science of genomics and genetics, which looks at how different genes can affect intelligence. Such work is already being done at the laboratory level. Actually, when embryos are created through IVF process, many embryos are created in it. Through microscopic examination it can be seen which genes are present in the embryo. The future is hidden in these genes. For example, how intelligent a person will be or what disease he will suffer from are recorded in different types of genes. Research has found that some special genes may be related to intelligence. The company analyzes these genes and tries to identify embryos in which these genes are present. The Heliospect company claims that based on the information about these genes, it can predict which embryos may be more intelligent in the future.
Intelligence is a complex trait, determined by many aspects.
Experts around the world are expressing doubts about this claim of the company. Experts say that intelligence is a complex quality which depends on many factors. Environment, child rearing, education and social experience are also factors for this. Simply studying genes cannot predict whether children will be very intelligent in the future. This method of selecting children also raises many ethical questions. For example, if someone wants to make his child smart and intelligent and he does not have that gene, will he kill that embryo? If this is possible after editing the genes, then there can be someone who can have a superhuman child, then a dangerous situation can arise.
more a question of morality
Katie Hasson, associate director of the University of California’s Center for Genetics and Society, told The Guardian that the biggest issue is that when this starts happening, it will become very complicated to choose between good genes and bad genes because who is A bad gene can also become a good gene for someone. In such a situation, it will be difficult to make it normal. Then people will also believe that society has no role in imparting values ​​to the child, it is determined only by genes. Therefore this is a very complex matter. In such a situation, this technology certainly seems potentially exciting but its impact and ethics require deep discussion.
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first published : October 20, 2024, 12:29 IST
