Matthew and Olivia don’t think of themselves as having a “designer baby.” That term has negative ... for the health and well-­being of their future child, as parents should.

Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients ... By 2018, at least two babies had been born from germline editing with embryos that had been genetically modified ...

But it also brings the prospect of designer babies one small step closer (see ... which opens the door to a Gattaca-like future in which parents can select desirable genetic traits for their ...

It lets doctors and future parents know ... of germline gene editing aren’t established well enough for clinical use. Scientists form designer babies when they edit or change an embryo’s ...

Designer baby, anyone ... those statistics to deciding that some who live here just aren't worthy to have children. Designing babies could also make for a boringly homogenous world in which ...

Developments in genetic technology are forced a discussion on whether or not designer babies are ethical ... that could result in birth defects, future illnesses or poor quality of life for ...

Greely, who lays out his ideas in a book called “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction ... ‘I want a designer baby,'” said Grifo, who’s performed in vitro fertilization ...

“This is the first step in a well mapped-out process heading to genetically modified babies, and a future of consumer ... to provide eggs often aren’t made fully aware of what the risks ...

There is no doubt in my mind that we will see what could be called “designer babies” in the very near future. This frightens many people for some very good reasons. I myself am the son of a ...

The designer babies have thus been called the “future-we-should-not-want” for each new reproductive technology or intervention. But the babies never came and are nowhere close. I am not surprised.

Depending on your perspective, tinkering with genes to make so-called designer babies is a dream — or a nightmare. With a couple tweaks to the genome, certain diseases, even ones that aren't ...