What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child's likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes - such as diabetes, heart ...

Three out of four U.S. adults support the use of emerging technologies that estimate a future child’s likelihood of developing health conditions influenced by multiple genes — such as diabetes, heart ...

LOS ANGELES - She had the name picked out since high school: Logann Rae, taken from a soap opera. She had two dolls waiting in a closet, both saved since childhood. But Tanya's first child was a son.

Big leaps in science are presenting parents with choices that were once impossible -- screening the DNA of embryos to help pick a future child with lower risks of disease, and higher odds of being ...

Wealthy British couples are paying tens of thousands of dollars to overseas firms to rank their IVF embryos for predicted ...

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are estimates of an individual's susceptibility to a specific complex trait obtained by aggregating the effects of dozens, thousands, and potentially millions of genetic ...

US biotech firm Nucleus Genomics this week launched a first-of-its-kind service letting IVF parents select embryos based on their potential disease risk. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s … genetic ...

A significant minority of Americans would favor genetic screening of embryos simply to boost their child’s chance to attend an elite university, a new survey indicates. Several bioethics experts and ...

LYON, France -- An older woman's chances of getting pregnant through in vitro fertilization could be reduced if embryos are screened for defects before being implanted into the womb, doctors said ...

Nucleus Genomics offers embryo screening to predict baby’s height and intelligence for $8,999 The service sequences DNA of up to 20 embryos and screens for health and physical traits Nucleus provides ...