In “Second Life,” the journalist Amanda Hess navigates the stratified landscape of contemporary reproductive technology.

Imagine the unbelievable expectations that come with being among the small number of "designer babies" — children whose embryos are handpicked before birth so that they possess their parent's ...

Furthermore, the developing technologies of genetic alteration open up a whole new set of possibilities -- which could result in so-called "designer babies." The technique -- known as inheritable ...

Are you ready for the era of designer babies? Advances in gene sequencing have now made it possible for embryos to be screened for a host of genetic diseases and physical traits. Private companies are ...

choosing the gender of your baby through in vitro fertilization. But it puts into question the ethics surrounding designer families, especially with an increasing number of couples opting for ...

For example, two of the female babies featured in the article were reportedly chosen, as embryos, by their mothers for their sex. (Imagine the outcry if a parent publicly admitted to sex-selecting ...

A leading fertility doctor is preparing to fight a landmark legal battle that could win parents the right to create a "designer" baby to save the life of their sick child. Mohammed Taranissi has ...

A mother desperate to have a designer baby to help cure her sick son has suffered a miscarriage, it emerged yesterday. Shahana Hashmi, who won a legal battle to have a geneticallyselected child ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The future of genetics might someday open up and allow us to create children in a lab, designed to our exact specifications. But astrophysicist and "StarTalk Radio ...