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1. Designer baby - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_baby
Description: WebA designer baby is a baby whose genetic makeup has been selected or altered, often to exclude a particular gene or to remove genes associated with disease. This process usually involves analysing a wide range of human embryos to identify genes associated with particular diseases and characteristics, and selecting embryos that have the desired ...
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2. Ethics of Designer Babies | Embryo Project Encyclopedia
Link: https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/ethics-designer-babies
Description: WebMar 31, 2011 · A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection. Before the advent of genetic engineering and in vitro fertilization (IVF), designer babies were primarily a science fiction concept.
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3. Designer Babies: Where Does Society Draw the Line?
Link: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/designer-babies-ethical-moral-biological-implications-future-genetic-technology/
Description: WebNovember 10, 2014 • Alison Berkley Margo, Guest Blogger. Designer babies — a term to describe the use of genetic selection to determine desired qualities of a child, such as eye color or even enhanced intelligence — are becoming closer to reality. With the potential to change everything from a newborn’s eye color to its health ...
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4. Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen?
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/08/designer-babies-ethical-horror-waiting-to-happen
Description: WebJan 8, 2017 · Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen? Nearly 40 years since the first ‘test-tube baby’, how close are we to editing out all of our genetic imperfections – and should we even try...
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5. A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science
Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-era-of-designer-babies-may-be-based-on-overhyped-science/
Description: WebJul 12, 2021 · A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science. Genetic testing with IVF is being marketed as a means to choose a healthy embryo, despite questions about the soundness of the...
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6. What Are Designer Babies? - Verywell Family
Link: https://www.verywellfamily.com/how-far-have-we-come-in-the-genetic-screening-of-embryos-4777705
Description: WebSep 13, 2021 · People struggling with repeated miscarriage or with a history of serious genetic disease may choose to use designer baby technology. Since selecting for and against specific genes or traits involves screening at the embryo stage of fetal development, it can only be done in a laboratory setting.
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7. China’s Genetically Edited babies: What really happened?
Link: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/chinas-genetically-edited-babies-really-happened/
Description: WebDec 12, 2018 · A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, shocked the world two weeks ago when he revealed that the world’s first genetically edited babies had been born. Jiankui claimed to have edited embryos before implanting them into the mother as part of an otherwise routine in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure.
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8. Scientists Can Design ‘Better’ Babies. Should They?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/us/11retro-baby-genetics.html
Description: WebJun 10, 2018 · - The New York Times. Retro Report. Scientists Can Design ‘Better’ Babies. Should They? Share full article. 68. Genetic technology is advancing, and critics are warning of a slippery slope.
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9. The ethical dilemma of designer babies - TED
Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_knoepfler_the_ethical_dilemma_of_designer_babies
Description: WebBiologist Paul Knoepfler estimates that within fifteen years, scientists could use the gene editing technology CRISPR to make certain "upgrades" to human embryos -- from altering physical appearances to eliminating the risk of auto-immune diseases.
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10. Designer babies: choosing our children's genes - The Lancet
Link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61538-X/fulltext
Description: WebThe phrase “designer babies” refers to genetic interventions into pre-implantation embryos in the attempt to influence the traits the resulting children will have. At present, this is not possible, but many people are horrified by the mere thought that parents might want to choose their children's genes, especially for non-disease traits.