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 it ...

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 Short ...

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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 ...

Letting parents use new gene-editing technology to pick characteristics ... physical or intellectual traits, so-called “designer babies”, so long as it meets strict ethical and regulatory ...

An international group of gene editing leaders has put out a call for a 10-year ban on heritable human genome editing (HHGE), ...

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 ...

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 ...

"And while the specter of designer babies is easier to conjure ... how unsafe it would be to try to make any new gene-edited babies. The editing remains prone to missing the intended target ...

When does reducing the risk of inherited breast cancer, diabetes, or Alzheimer’s disease edge into “designer baby ... alter the resulting baby’s genetics—the edits could also pass on to their ...

The custom-built gene editing treatment for 6-month-old KJ Muldoon could not have come at a more welcome or jarring time for ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.