Dr He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, made the two designer babies, Lulu and Nana, by employing a gene editing technology known as CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short ...

But it’s a slippery slope. When does reducing the risk of inherited breast cancer, diabetes, or Alzheimer’s disease edge into “designer baby” territory? As scientists grapple with the implications of ...

Today’s headlines highlight critical developments in genetic medicine, global politics, and the latest updates from the ...

CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is a powerful ... And Zhang agrees, “I think the public will utilize the designer baby technology.” The United Kingdom recently became the first country ...

the emergence of the notion of designer babies. The controversy surrounding CRISPR technology expanded in early 2015, both in anticipation of and in response to the first reported use of the ...

But some fear CRISPR might lead to the creation of designer babies, or unleash consequences we cannot predict. “Think of it like editing text,” says Dr. Janet Rossant, a researcher who uses ...