#16 - Noor Siddiqui - Is Embryo Screening the Future of Reproduction?

Most people want to give their children the best start in life, but what if that "best start" could be determined *before* birth? That's what today's guest Noor Siddiqui believes -- her Mom progressively lost her vision due to a degenerative retinal condition, which made her determined to find a way to prevent her own children from the same fate. A computer scientist by training, Noor has since founded Orchid, the world's first full-genome sequencing platform for embryos conceived through IVF, that enables parents to screen and select the embryo with the highest probability of good health. So as you can imagine, this opens up a lot of fascinating questions, both technical and ethical, and as someone with prospective parenthood on my mind, this was a great opportunity to pick her brains about where the future of reproductive technology is going, and the ethical dilemmas it poses. Chapters: 00:02:14 - What is genetic testing? 00:09:30 - How IVF works 00:13:38 - How much genetic testing costs 00:19:33 - Genetic Testing and the Disabled Community 00:26:59 - The Naturalism Debate 00:32:29 - Genetic Trade Offs 00:39:30 - Effects on the Gene Pool 00:42:58 - Genetic Control & Eugenics 00:48:45 - Fertility Crisis 01:05:14 - Artificial Wombs 01:21:13 - Vision for the Future Links: Orchid - https://www.orchidhealth.com/ Noor's Twitter - https://twitter.com/noor_siddiqui_ IVF - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation Discussion of Cost-tradeoffs - https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/07/ivf-screening-costs0.html CreditsHosted by Liv BoereeProduced & Edited by Raymond Wei Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt The Win-Win Podcast:Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.