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 ...

Kim, Kanye, their daughter North and their upcoming baby boy are the epitome the “designer baby ... but the rest of us aren’t far behind.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, we asked whether designer babies were OK. I’d like to reopen ... The case has been made that these aren’t inherently crippling conditions so much as different modes of perception ...

The designer baby question is sort of, ‘Can we travel to other galaxies?’ We aren’t very close ... prevent diseases from being passed on to future generations is ludicrous.

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 ...