UK doctors plan country’s first three-person fertilization procedure

UK officials have approved two women for mitochondrial replacement therapy, the fertilization procedure that results in a baby technically parented by three people, the Guardian reports. The procedure, which still isn’t approved in the US, was legalized in the UK in 2015 and the Newcastle Fertility Centre, where the two women will be treated, was […]

This Day In History In 1978: First Test Tube Baby Is Born Proving In Vitro Fertilization Works

The world sits on the cusp of being able to create designer babies that would allow parents to predetermine their child’s sex, eye color, height, health conditions, and a plethora of other genetic variabilities. With that being said, it is hard to imagine that only 38-years ago, the world was introduced to its first test […]