Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and the genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of genetic screening. The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. "I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening," she said at the WIRED Health summit last week. "There's just a massive amount of risk that you can take off of the table." Siddiqui is the founder and CEO of Orchid, a biotech company that offers whole-genome screening of embryos for IVF.