Sentence examples for genetically modified babies from inspiring English sources

Bermingham told me he never imagined he'd have to be taking a position on genetically modified babies so soon.

Alongside technical debates about the possible benefits of creating genetically modified babies, the scientists said no decisions should be made to go ahead without broad public support.

The emergence of technology capable of creating genetically modified babies raises the theoretical possibility of correcting genes that cause inherited diseases, like sickle-cell anemia.

In the UK and many other countries it is illegal to create genetically modified babies, and scientists in the field have reached a broad consensus that it would be deeply unethical to try.

It has snowballed into a force that has taken the world of molecular biology by storm, promising new cures, new drugs, and even the possibility of eradicating some inherited diseases by the creation of "genetically modified" babies.

Next week, in Washington, D.C., the world's experts on a powerful new genetic-engineering technology called CRISPR will convene at the National Academy of Sciences for a historic meeting at which they'll consider calling for a global moratorium on anyone trying to use the technique to make genetically modified babies.

Greely notes that in the United States, there are piles of regulations to keep lab science from morphing into a genetically modified baby anytime soon.

The statement is likely to discourage anyone from rushing ahead and trying to make a genetically modified baby, but isn't binding.

Even if scientists become capable of editing human embryos, it would take years for the genetically modified baby to grow old enough to reproduce and then many generations for the alteration to disseminate throughout the population.

In 2015, members of Congress quietly attached a two-sentence rider to an enormous appropriations bill, prohibiting the clinical use of any technology that would produce a genetically modified baby.

Even if scientists become capable of editing human embryos, it would take years for the genetically modified baby to grow old enough to reproduce — and then many generations for the alteration to disseminate throughout the population.