Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel joins 'America Reports' to discuss rising IVF use, advances in embryo ...

Genetic screening technology now allows parents employing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to select for certain traits, allowing them to avoid passing on diseases or undesirable traits to their children.

Sam Altman's support for a gene-editing project aiming to create disease-free babies raises urgent ethical, scientific, and societal concerns.

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in ...

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 ...

CNN - An ethics panel has sided with those who support the idea of some babies having three parents. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics issued an opinion today, suggesting there's nothing wrong with ...

South African health authorities have withdrawn a contentious section on heritable human genome editing (HHGE) from the country’s national ethics guidelines.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

Imagine a world where the boundaries of biology are no longer fixed—a world where life can be created in a lab, where artificial intelligence can preserve a version of you long after you’re gone, and ...

WASHINGTON — Don't expect designer babies any time soon — but a major new ethics report leaves open the possibility of one day altering human heredity to fight genetic diseases, with stringent ...