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  Designer babies are those born from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos chosen for their presence or lack of specific genes, or those born from pre-implantation embryos with genetic alterations made in an effort to influence the characteristics the offspring would have. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)-selected embryos are used to generate designer babies, or the traits of the offspring are tweaked genetically. The main goal of designing infants is to prevent heritable disorders that are caused by DNA mutations from affecting them. Adam Nash, who was born in 2000 via in vitro fertilization with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, a method used to choose desired traits, is regarded as the first designer child. In order to prevent and cure genetic flaws that lead to disease, CRISPR designer babies are produced by altering DNA fragments. The most recent application of CAS9, a unique technology that can add or remove specific kinds of genes from a DNA molecule, was for t

  In contrast to chronological age, biological age refers to the real age of your body. While biological age is flexible and can even be reversed, chronological age cannot be altered, allowing you to seem and feel younger than your actual age. Aging clocks are instruments that determine an organism's biological age using biomarkers. Since our physical and physiological functioning determines our biological age, researchers have known that this definition of ageing is very dynamic and substantially influenced by our surroundings, including our diet and way of life. Our epigenome, or the way in which our genes are expressed in response to the environment, is what establishes our biological age. We can actually slow down the biological ageing process by changing our diet and way of living. The intricacy of biological ageing and how our diet and lifestyle choices affect how our genes are expressed. It implies that you can start making little, doable adjustments that will have