Alexander Strudwick Young

UCLA geneticist and co-founder of Herasight, a company that uses machine-learned polygenic scores trained on datasets like the UK Biobank to predict IVF embryos' traits, including IQ.

Matters to this vault as one of the two named scientists (with Tobias Wolfram) who publicly unveiled Herasight in 2025 — the successor brand under which personnel from the 2024 Heliospect Genomics investigation continue operating openly, including Jonathan Anomaly and Michael Christensen. Named as senior/corresponding author on multiple polygenic-score papers listed on Herasight's own site.

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• claim-independent-journalism-2025-2026-confirms-herasight-continues-iq-embryo-scoring
• claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel