the following is a joke

lol. when a sperm (haploid genome) fertilizes an egg, the egg hasn't completed meiosis II. for a brief time, it still has a 2-copy genome (half of which separates into a polar body to be discarded). so the total number of chromosomes is diploid plus haploid, which is 46 + 23 =

Debate or update, sir! x.com/Jiankui_He/sta…

1/ Today we launch an ambitious paper on the ethics of embryo screening. While the technology is new, our hopes and fears about our future children are as old as the Greek myths, including stories about Hera, goddess of fertility and the namesake of our company Herasight

3/ Some say embryo screening should be illegal because it is unpopular. But empirical studies show widespread public support for screening health traits, and moderate to high support for psychiatric and behavioral traits, including intelligence (thanks to Rémy Furrer)

11/ The chart below shows our results, with green cells indicating neutral or beneficial pleiotropy and purple cells highlighting instances of negative (or “antagonistic”) pleiotropy:

protip: if you want to know what the fuck a bio paper is about, you read the last paragraph of the introduction, where they're done with the review of Stuff and say "In this paper we..."

And open-weight models, claimed to be SOTA for predicting several disease risks from genes! Nice. x.com/KianSadeghi5/s…