So-called designer babies are in the news again, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby (although there was no test tube involved).
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Month: June 2018
Are we heading toward an enhanced new world?
Guest post by Denise Howell After finishing “Biohack,” I was standing at my Newport Beach yoga studio this morning, surrounded by all the other local businesses dedicated to "perfecting" us, and was struck by just how many ways people might genetically modify their kids if they had the chance, given the expense and extremes we…
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Fertility clinic making babies with 3 parents' DNA
A toddler in Ukraine has three genetic parents. An NPR report from Rob Stein tells the story of a 31-year-old woman in western Ukraine who went through years of IVF treatments before finding a trailblazing fertility clinic.
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