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The tech billionaires and rogue scientists moving to commercialize CRISPR babies

Since the "CRISPR babies" scandal in 2018, no additional genetically modified babies are known to have been born. Now several techno-enthusiastic billionaires are setting up privately funded companies to genetically edit human embryos, with the explicit intention of creating genetically modified children. Heritable genome editing remains prohibited by policies in the overwhelming majority of countries that have any relevant policy, and by a bind…
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Signs of the Times broke the news in on Friday, August 1, 2025.
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