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The world's "oldest baby" has been born to a couple who are, technically, just a few years older than the newborn himself.
Developments

Baby Born Already 30 Years Old

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Gen Z entrepreneur with a passion for eugenics has launched an app that allows prospective parents to rank which embryos they want.
Developments

Genetics Startup Advertises App-Based Eugenics Service for Parents to Select “Smartest” Embryos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers
Gene Editing

Designer Babies Running Into Trouble Now That They’re Teenagers

By Frank Landymore

An infamous insurance billionaire has been accused by several women of operating a bizarre "baby project" to build a giant white family.
Gene Editing

Infamous Billionaire Accused of Running Bizarre Human Birthing Scheme

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Thiel fellow has launched a startup allowing parents to pick which embryos they want to incubate based on which has the best genes.
Gene Editing

Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

By Noor Al-Sibai

A former Harvard Medical School professor has been accused by an ex-patient of non-consensually inseminating her with his own sperm.
Gene Editing

Former Harvard Professor Accused of Inseminating Patient With His Own Sperm

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup, Spaceborn United, wants to reach the goal of having a baby naturally conceived and born on Mars in the future.
Space

Startup Working on Space Babies, But the Risks Are Grim

By Sharon Adarlo

A Spanish startup has built a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller.
Health & Medicine

First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

Indian police just caught a man who was smuggling a live, human embryo into the country from Malaysia, where fertility treatments are more expensive.
Health & Medicine

A Smuggler Just Got Caught With a Live Human Embryo in His Luggage

By Dan Robitzski

A new attempt to restore the Great Barrier Reef involves capturing sperm and egg cells, fertilizing them, and implanting the new coral back into the reef.
Climate Change

To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Are Hoarding Coral Sperm

By Dan Robitzski

A biotechnology firm figured out how to scan an embryo for genetic markers that predict an abnormally high or low intelligence.
Health & Medicine

New Test Predicts How Smart Babies Will Be Before They’re Born

By Dan Robitzski

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present
Artificial Intelligence

Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present

By Luke Kingma

northern white rhino
Science & Energy

With IVF, the Northern White Rhino May Not Go Extinct

By Chelsea Gohd

three-parent babies
Health & Medicine

Two Women Will Undergo Three-Parent Baby Therapy in the UK

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Edit Embryos with CRISPR to Better Understand Early Human Development
Health & Medicine

Scientists Edit Embryos with CRISPR to Better Understand Early Human Development

By Brad Jones

three-person-baby genetic diseases leigh syndrome clinical trials
Genetics

Genetics 2.0: Scientists Have Officially Created a New Kind of Child

By Christianna Reedy