Riders of the New York City subway were startled recently by an ad campaign commissioned by a newly established reproductive ...

With the newest technology, parents now have the ability to select the gender of their child. “While the desire to choose a baby boy or a baby girl has probably been present throughout human history, ...

~ Three percent of clinics surveyed said they have helped create children with a disability. CHICAGO -- The power to create "perfect" designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing. But what ...

Contributing columnist Abby McCloskey considers that gene editing and other advances in reproductive technology are bound to become political topics soon. Dreamstime / TNS We Texans like to do things ...

On this Special Report, Sneha Mordani explores the rapidly evolving landscape of modern healthcare on Health360. The ...

The United Kingdom made headlines last summer when government officials there said they would allow three-parent IVF testing. Using this method, fertility specialists can replace damaged DNA in a ...

A new video showing people casually discussing gene editing and designer babies is making waves because of its source: the government-funded group leading efforts to set standards for the ethically ...

That rogue scientist who created HIV-resistant designer babies is apparently gearing up for more human gene-editing research. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, He Jiankui said he wants to ...

It could be a brave new world. Texas Sen. John Cornyn sounded the alarm that a biotech startup firm that has raised some $30 million to study diseases in embryos is working on gene-editing techniques ...

Designer baby drama: Sam Altman and his husband are funding Preventive, a startup aiming to gene-edit embryos to prevent inherited diseases, something illegal in the U.S. and most of the planet.

South African health authorities have withdrawn a contentious section on heritable human genome editing (HHGE) from the country’s national ethics guidelines. This comes after mounting criticism from ...