Why Making A ‘Designer Baby’ Would Be Easier Said Than Done

(By Richard Harris for NPR)

Scientists continue to speak out against the prospect of producing engineered embryos that could lead to “designer babies.”

Leaders of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy sent a letter on April 24 to Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services, adding their voices to the call for a moratorium on experiments that could alter the genes passed down to future generations.

This move follows a widely criticized experiment in China last year that apparently produced children with edited genomes.  Continue reading article here…

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