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WILLIAM DARAN
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An aspiring GENETICIST | PhD student in Human Genetics(2023-27)| MS(GWAS+GxE) & Genetics(behaviour,statistical,complex traits& evolutionary). NEFELIBATA I AM.
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"We would argue that selling embryo selection based on genetic testing is a form of privatization and commodification on steroids that takes preventive and private medicine to an extreme."
First, offering these techniques increasingly reinforces human reproduction and health as a private commodity, where individuals rely on private markets and pay high premiums to procreate and try to maximize health outcomes. The development of welfare states has been strongly oriented towards decommodification, which implies making citizens independent of market systems and has significantly benefited public health by offering social protection to all citizens. Offering genetic predictions for embryos to improve health outcomes latches onto a privatization logic that does exactly the opposite and hence erodes a system based on social equality and solidarity. It is true that the commodification of health has a long history in the United States, where most of these companies are situated, and that European states have also shifted towards a privatization of healthcare in the last few decades. Yet, there is still a difference between offering medical services in private markets and making the reproduction of human life a site of commodification. We would argue that selling embryo selection based on genetic testing is a form of privatization and commodification on steroids that takes preventive and private medicine to an extreme.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
daranwilliam.bsky.social
Have read it! It's brilliant and neat paper! Congratulations and thanks to your group!
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Well, it could just be the processes of development themselves. They're noisy. There's just a lot of stochasticity and sometimes that can push development down one pathway versus another. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM