David Sable, Contributor

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IvfOPEN: Advanced Egg, Sperm, And Embryo Identification For A Safer IVF Industry.

The first social security numbers were assigned in 1936. VIN numbers for automobiles were introduced in 1954. ISBN numbers for books started in 1970. The first UPC grocery scan was performed in 1974 on a pack of gum. How can we justify not implementin…

Entrepreneurship In IVF: The Promise And Challenges Of Artificial Intelligence

..are we introducing a bias into the process at its earliest stage, asking the computer to find new decision-influencing inputs, but only from a pool of embryos that already incorporate the old decision-making parameters…

What Does Pre-Med Or Pre-Law Look Like For Entrepreneurship?

I stuck a pencil behind my ear and started writing articles about music. Somewhere in my parents’ storage boxes, there is an unmarked file with two and three-page typed opinion pieces about Chuck Berry and the Allman Brothers, and song-by-song reviews …

The 2020 Spring Semester Entrepreneurship In Biotechnology Reading List

Class starts next Friday! Here’s the extra reading I’m recommending to my students this semester.

Since When Is Preventive Medicine Elective? Egg Freezing. Is. Healthcare.

Why do we choose to selectively label preventive medicine via egg freezing as “elective?”

Since When Is Preventive Medicine Elective? Egg Freezing. Is. Healthcare.

Why do we choose to selectively label preventive medicine via egg freezing as “elective?”

Why We Should Make Genetic Counselors Our Partners In The Growth Of IVF

…but the potential shortage of genetic counseling requires more than that. It requires a concerted entrepreneurial effort, with the most important input coming from the genetic counseling community itself.

Embryologist-Owned IVF Labs And Other Keys To The Future Of Preventive Medicine

So while RE’s are the best doctors to tease out the endocrine and anatomic nuances that result in infertility patients’ inability to conceive, their success in that population could be complemented by physicians outside the specialty covering the small…

Hacking Darwin: The Ultimate Guide To 21st Century Sex Education

Will those who choose to conceive the old fashioned way will be shunned for carelessly leaving the important process of evolution to natural selection? Will this mean the end of disease, a democratization of innate talents, and the ubiquity of broad s…

Designer Babies Should Be The Footnote, Not The Headline, In PGD Debate

If you want to lose me quickly in any discussion about preimplantation genetics (choose your acronym: PGD, PGS, PGT), use the term “slippery slope.”