designer babies

News

Chinese scientist says he edited babies’ genes to be HIV-resistant. But the government put a stop to it.

11.29.18

By Lauren Prince
It’s Happening: US Scientists Reportedly Made a Genetically Modified Human Embryo

07.28.17

By Kate Lunau
Tech

It’s Happening: US Scientists Reportedly Made a Genetically Modified Human Embryo

07.27.17

By Kate Lunau
Tech

Genetic Editing Could Cause the Next Cold War

12.13.16

By Zoltan Istvan
Tech

A Bioethicist Argues for Engineering Babies That Will Have an Easy Life

07.05.16

By Richard Wordsworth
Tech

This Week, Top Geneticists Want to Decide If GMO Humans Are OK

12.02.15

By Alex Pearlman
Tech

The Technology Transhumanists Want in Their Kids

05.18.15

By Zoltan Istvan
Scientists Are Working Out Whether You Can Have a Baby with Yourself

06.11.14

By Alex Horne
Tech

‘Three-Parent Babies’ Could Be Born in Two Years

06.04.14

By Victoria Turk
Tech

The Technology for Designer Babies Was Just Patented, But Will It Be Used?

10.02.13

By Meghan Neal
Tech

Ones and Zeros 5/3/11: Birth Certificate Be Damned, Peak TV, OBL’s a Twit-lebrity

05.03.11

By Ones Zeros

The Latest

(Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images for ABA)

Music

Drake Is Allegedly Recording New ‘ICEMAN’ Album at Houston Strip Club

3 minutes ago

By Caleb Catlin
Gaming

Wow, This Brings Back Memories — Watch a Nintendo Rep Help a Zelda Fan Over the Phone

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Nintendo players could call in and get help from Nintendo Power Line reps.

1 hour ago

By Denny Connolly
Epic Gamer Grandma

Gaming

Fans Mourn Passing of Popular 78-Year-Old Gamer

There’s no age limit to gaming.

2 hours ago

By Grace Black
(Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Music

Kanye West Teases New Album After Appearing at Comedy Show

3 hours ago

By Caleb Catlin
Membership

The Strangest Person I Know: The Busiest Mortician in Dagestan

Meet Dr. Rodney Rodderson, a 43-year-old mortician and part-time scuba-diving instructor who relocated from Sheppey to Izberbash to work in death.

4 hours ago

By Kevin Lee Kharas