A leading fertility doctor is preparing to fight a landmark legal battle that could win parents the right to create a "designer" baby to save the life of their sick child. Mohammed Taranissi has ...

Jamie is Britain's first "designer" baby - genetically matched while still an IVF embryo to his four-year-old brother, Charlie, in the hope of curing a rare type of anaemia which threatens the ...

Watch Designer Babies for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now! Insight looks at the ethics of so-called designer-babies.

In the ethical problem of designer babies, this does introduce more choice, but you’re not editing out mutations, much less “writing in” what you would prefer. One win did arrive last year ...

With concerns growing over gene-editing technology in humans, Japan is planning to ban creation of so-called "designer babies" out of safety concerns and possible effects on future generations.

An curved arrow pointing right. The future of genetics might someday open up and allow us to create children in a lab, designed to our exact specifications. But astrophysicist and "StarTalk Radio ...