Genetic disorders—Down Syndrome ... It suggests eugenics, or a future of “designer babies.” This is not all fanciful concern: in some countries prenatal sex determination and sex-selective ...

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), Preimplantation Genetic Screening/Diagnosis (PGS/PGD), Nuclear Transfer (3-Parent Baby Technology), Gene Editing (Designer Babies), and Artificial Gametes ...

And when their designer baby doesn't turn out that way ... It's even worse in cases like when the parents later find out that their genetic donors had psychiatric problems.

Britain's first genetic "designer" baby has been born to a couple desperate to cure their young son who has a rare form of anaemia. Jamie Whitaker was delivered by Caesarean section on Monday ...

Babies could be designed free of some hereditary diseases using a revolutionary technique. Two patents for the new genetic method have been taken out by fertility expert Lord Winston, presenter of ...

And Zhang agrees, “I think the public will utilize the designer baby ... to prevent incurable genetic diseases, so there’s no doubt — more three-parent babies, and possibly designed babies ...

Researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's found that using exclusion-based criteria to refer infants ...

Rather than just curing genetic diseases ... traits like appearance and intelligence—in other words, creating designer babies. Some worry the rich would edit their offspring “better ...

But soon, with the progress in genetic modification ... While it might seem like it is straight out of science fiction, designer babies are becoming a reality. For instance, in 2019, He Jiankui ...

Insight looks at the ethics of so-called designer-babies. It asks whether humans should embrace the new genetic technologies to 'breed out' disease and illness, whether it is wrong to play God and ...