Mums and dads eager to shape their offspring into prodigies are fuelling the advance of a growing but largely unregulated industry.
Chris Jung, of Gene Discovery, with his wife Louise Poon and daughter Kaysley Jung in Hong Kong. Bloomberg
Months after his daughter's birth in 2017, Chris Jung dropped off a test tube of her saliva to his company's genetic testing lab in Hong Kong.
He had grand ambitions for the baby, and was seeking clues to the future in her DNA. She might become a prominent professional, he thought, possibly even a doctor.
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