Kim, Kanye, their daughter North and their upcoming baby boy are the epitome the “designer baby” phenomenon.Getty Images FilmMagic Kardashian has denied the story, but even if it’s not true ...

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 ...

Now the beginnings of the day of designer babies have finally come. The Fertility Institutes recently stunned the fertility community by being the first company to boldly offer couples the opportunity ...

Critics fear that the era of "designer babies," where parents choose baby features as though ordering from a menu, could be on the way. Yet, the technology is not new. For the past few years ...

Adam Nash is considered to be the first designer baby, born in 2000 using in vitro fertilizaton with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, a technique used to choose desired characteristics.

We have experienced bouts of moral panic over "designer babies" ever since the 1960s when in vitro fertilization was first being discussed as a real possibilty. IVF opponents claimed that parents ...

“No patient has ever came to me and said, ‘I want a designer baby,'” said Grifo, who’s performed in vitro fertilization since 1988. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

That seems like a future we should welcome! Nonetheless, many view the prospect of "designer babies" with alarm. A recent article in the prestigious MIT Technology Review illustrates some of the ...

Most countries’ governments agree. They’ve banned the creation of designer babies. But it’s going to happen anyway. The U.S. bans the sale of kidneys, observes Brennan, but “that doesn’t ...

The first designer babies, created by editing out imperfections at the embryonic stage, were born in 2018, around 40 years after the first test tube baby was made in 1978. Dr He Jiankui ...

Screening embryos for disease-causing genes during IVF, selecting their future baby’s sex, picking egg and sperm donors to influence their child’s traits. Today, a lot of those “designer ...