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In a new twist in the medical tourism industry, families are traveling to Thailand for fertility treatment that selects the sex of their unborn baby.

From clean coal to designer babies: Why the marvels we were promised haven’t materialized.

MEET the doctor who is making Scots’ dreams of designing the perfect baby come true.

At this year’s Society for Social Studies Conference at the University of Tokyo, Aug. 25-29, there will be a session on “BioArt,” which begs the question: What would that be? BioArt describes the variety of art forms emerging in the last two decades that use biotechnology or genetics to manipulate living things, altering food, plants, even livestock. In best do-it- yourself tradition, artists …

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BERLIN – EMBRYOS created during in vitro fertilization can be screened for genetic defects before being implanted in the womb, a German high court said in a landmark ruling. The Federal Supreme Court in Leipzig ruled in support of a Berlin gynecologist who had carried out screening on embryos for three different couples and implanted only those that were healthy. The embryos with hereditary …

Berlin – A German court on Tuesday acquitted a fertility doctor of illegal abortion after he let several test-tube human embryos die when they failed tests for genetic diseases….

It has revolutionized the fertility industry, and its use is growing.

Australia’s first IVF baby, Candice Reed, is celebrating her 30th birthday today.

It seems designer babies are well and truly with us. A report on Sky News today referred us to a site called beautifulbabies.com where people can not only link up, but find gorgeous looking potential egg and sperm donors for babies too.

We must allow compassion to replace competition, dialogue to displace discord, sharing to replace secrecy and generosity to replace greed.

The announcement last week of the first synthetic living cell generated sensational headlines and thinly sourced reports that its creator, J. Craig Venter, is “playing God.” But most experts in the field would say otherwise, suggesting the creation is somewhat run-of-the-mill.

For the first time, genetic material from three different people is combined into a single embryo as researchers attempt to prevent some heritable diseases.

Colorado couples are screening embryos prior to implantation for fatal diseases in order to have healthy children.

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