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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.

From the Windows 10 launch to genetically modified babies and Elon Musk tweeting about his "D," we give you our top articles from this week (9/27-10/3).

Personalized medicine, genetically modified babies, self-driving cars and the Internet of Things, the seat of power belongs to those who code.

It has transformed research in a wide range of fields, but the progress means genetically modified babies are ceasing to be a prospect and fast becoming a possibility.

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.

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.

The i newspaper claims a world exclusive, saying the era of genetically modified babies has moved a "giant step" closer after scientists said they were now capable of safely altering human embryos.

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.