Episode 8: Embryo Screening for Disease Prevention — The Future of Babies

In this episode, we talk to Noor Siddiqui, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford University student. Noor is researching genetic screening of embryos to reduce the likelihood of Alzheimer’s and other genetic diseases. In this episode, we go in-depth into her research about how this screening technique could decrease the prevalence of diseases in a population and how one day we might live in a world without chronic diseases. Born to Pakistani immigrants, Noor also shares her personal story of how she first came be interested in entrepreneurship and her journey as a Thiel Fellow.

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Episode 8: Embryo Screening for Disease Prevention — The Future of Babies is an episode from Imagine Human by Imagine Human.

This episode is 00:37:47 long.

This episode was published on Mar 20, 2018.

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