Designer babies may sound like science fiction, but they’re becoming increasingly possible as gene editing technology to treat and prevent genetic diseases evolves. How scientists should use ...

Genetic screening technology now allows parents employing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to select for certain traits, allowing ...

But the designer-baby debate is a distraction from the real story of how gene editing is changing people’s lives, through treatments used on adults with serious diseases. In fact, there are ...

Gene editing in humans is not only possible ... It is precisely the use of this method, which sits at the heart of the "designer baby" debate, that put Jiankui in jail. Advocates say we could ...

In 2015, three years after scientists discovered how to permanently edit the human genome, U.S. scientists issued a statement to halt applications of germline genome editing ... baby to a severe ...

Dr He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, made the two designer babies, Lulu and Nana, by employing a gene editing technology known as CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced ...