News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it’s a step toward creating “designer babies.” May 14, 2008 ...

The “designer babies” are at the centre of a new documentary at the Hot Docs 2022 festival, giving us an inside look at what happened. This film started when filmmaker Cody Sheehy received a call from ...

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 ...

“Designer babies, once found only in science fiction, have become a reality,” the book jacket notes.

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

The nation's first "designer" test-tube babies, who will help their seriously ill sisters with stem cell transplants, have been born amid ethical concerns in the medical profession and among the ...

Scientists ring alarm on designer babies but one key voice is missing Co-creator of CRISPR Jennifer Doudna has long warned about the danger of genetic editing but she didn't seem to align with her ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n ...

Bowers believes that although the use of CRISPR-Cas9 to create the world’s first designer babies was unethical, it’s opened an important discussion to the public about a very promising technology.

d'Entemont, Yvette. (14 Sep 2019). From curing disease to designer babies, Halifax prof’s book urges caution in evolving world of gene editing. The Star ...