For more than four decades, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has helped families have children. Scientists estimate that more than 10 million people worldwide have been born through IVF and related ...
Selecting embryos for complex traits or disease risks faces high uncertainty, raising urgent ethical risks that require ...
If the last two decades have taught us anything, it is that the slippery slope is indeed slippery. What society once naturally recoiled from—designer babies, artificial wombs, and the termination of ...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity, autism, bipolar disorder, even celiac disease. These ...
The past decade ushered in a surge of discovery in the field of human genetics — and simultaneously, more genetic technologies made their way out of the lab and into the consumer marketplace. This ...
A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer, obesity,... Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should ...