Ms Smith, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, said: "This is on par with a Frankenstein report ... people might want to choose the sex of their baby but they would have to justify it very hard." ...

Three babies were born as a result of the illegal experiment. Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first “gene-edited” babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...