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

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 ...

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 ...

After 307 days at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a local baby who was born with a rare and usually fatal disorder ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

He was widely condemned because the move sparked fears that he had opened the door further to so-called designer ... gene editing and has followed He's case closely. The professor says in editing ...

After spending over 300 days at CHOP, KJ Muldoon has been released from the hospital after receiving personalized CRISPR gene ...