Imagine the unbelievable expectations that come with being among the small number of "designer babies" — children whose embryos are handpicked before birth so that they possess their parent's ...

choosing the gender of your baby through in vitro fertilization. But it puts into question the ethics surrounding designer families, especially with an increasing number of couples opting for ...

Are you ready for the era of designer babies? Advances in gene sequencing have now made it possible for embryos to be screened for a host of genetic diseases and physical traits. Private companies are ...

For example, two of the female babies featured in the article were reportedly chosen, as embryos, by their mothers for their sex. (Imagine the outcry if a parent publicly admitted to sex-selecting ...

But it also circles back to the question of what do you do with the information? Will it lead to designer babies? What are your thoughts about that? But if we make choices that affect not only the ...

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he ...

It raises the spectre of the first true 'designer babies', says the influential Nuffield Council on Bioethics, a committee of leading doctors and scientists. The report suggests it could soon be ...

A leading fertility doctor is preparing to fight a landmark legal battle that could win parents the right to create a "designer" baby to save the life of their sick child. Mohammed Taranissi has ...

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