This is an interesting idea. Nuclear transfer has been used in cloning before, but it is not particularly reliable. That being said, perhaps future research could improve the success rate (and more importantly the ease of doing so).
At the end of the day, the entire iterated embryo selection process is about generating a complete DNA sequence that scores better on our tests. I left out whole genome synthesis from the original post because from the brief reading I did on the topic it seemed prohibitively expensive. But that could change in the future, as the cost per base pair has been declining exponentially for some time now. The most notable recent use of whole-genome sequencing was to create the mRNA in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
This is an interesting idea. Nuclear transfer has been used in cloning before, but it is not particularly reliable. That being said, perhaps future research could improve the success rate (and more importantly the ease of doing so).
At the end of the day, the entire iterated embryo selection process is about generating a complete DNA sequence that scores better on our tests. I left out whole genome synthesis from the original post because from the brief reading I did on the topic it seemed prohibitively expensive. But that could change in the future, as the cost per base pair has been declining exponentially for some time now. The most notable recent use of whole-genome sequencing was to create the mRNA in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.
Maybe I’ll write a future post about this topic.