designer babies

ONE of Australia's first "designer babies" born from an embryo that doctors believed did not contain a cancer gene has failed, prompting a massive lawsuit. The boy's heartbroken family launched the landmark legal action against a Victorian IVF clinic following the alleged diagnosis.

Doctors may be able to use a simple test on newborn babies to predict their chances of developing diseases such as diabetes and heart disease if groundbreaking research in WA is successful.
  
Perth doctors are collecting DNA from 3000 WA teenagers and will match it with information about their lifestyles to produce a model which could be used in future to indicate the types of diseases people could develop over their lifetime.

Boy or girl? Almost half of U.S. fertility clinics that offer embryo screening say they allow couples to choose the sex of their child, the most extensive survey of the practice suggests. Gender selection without any medical reason to warrant it was performed in about 9 percent of all embryo screenings last year, the survey found.