Editing genes in sperm, eggs and embryos is currently banned in the United States. The current effort by Preventive, a ...

Regulators are supposed to abide by society's “bargain” with them: Civil servants are granted lifetime tenure and protected from political pressure and retaliation, and in return, they are supposed to ...

As reported in the Wall Street Journal, Armstrong has now officially entered the designer-baby business by funding heritable ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the company Preventive is working toward genetically engineering its first baby ...

Genetically engineered humans may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the quest to create genetically modified babies is getting a reboot. NPR's health correspondent Rob Stein brings us ...