{"id":65262,"date":"2018-11-26T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65262"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:44:07","slug":"exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies-regalado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/11\/26\/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies-regalado\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies [Regalado]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612458\/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from technologyreview.com by Antonio Regalado<br \/>\n<em>A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It was the invention of a powerful gene-editing tool, CRISPR, which is cheap and easy to deploy, that made the birth of humans genetically modified in an in vitro fertilization (IVF) center a theoretical possibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Now, it appears it may already be happening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Where some see a new form of medicine that eliminates genetic disease, others see a slippery slope to enhancements, designer babies, and a new form of eugenics.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies &#8212; from technologyreview.com by Antonio Regalado A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing. Excerpt: When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,314,360,217,83,480,454,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-asia","category-biology","category-research","category-science","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65263,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65262\/revisions\/65263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}