A designer baby is when the parents of the fetus choose the gender, hair color, eye color and sometimes even personality. The increasing power and accessibility of genetic technology may one day give ...

Eugenic Editing Governments should ban the practice of designing babies, says Michelle Cretella, M.D., president of the American College of Pediatricians. “Gene editing for designer babies is eugenics ...

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children ...

But some critics question the approach. They worry about risks, and whether the approach will open the door to using genetic technologies to manipulate the genes in other ways to someday create ...

Imagine a world where parents can artificially choose the genetic make-up of babies who are intelligent, smart, good-looking, and devoid of any hereditary disease. These desires might be possible ...

Others stress that the technology is distinct from gene-editing techniques like CRISPR, which have also raised fears about designer babies. "This is totally different," Lovell-Badge says.