{"id":102143,"date":"2020-02-10T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-details-about-the-infamous-crispr-babies-experiment-have-just-been-revealed"},"modified":"2020-02-10T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:42:50","slug":"new-details-about-the-infamous-crispr-babies-experiment-have-just-been-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-details-about-the-infamous-crispr-babies-experiment-have-just-been-revealed","title":{"rendered":"New Details About The Infamous \u2018CRISPR Babies\u2019 Experiment Have Just Been Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-details-about-the-infamous-crispr-babies-experiment-have-just-been-revealed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui\u2019s attempt to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/crispr-gene-editing\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CRISPR\">CRISPR<\/a> technology to modify human embryos and make them resistant to HIV, which led to the birth of twins Lulu and Nana.<\/p>\n<p>Now, crucial details have been revealed in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614764\/chinas-crispr-babies-read-exclusive-excerpts-he-jiankui-paper\/\">release of excerpts<\/a> from the study, which have triggered a series of concerns about how Lulu and Nana\u2019s genome was modified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui\u2019s attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human embryos and make them resistant to HIV, which led to the birth of twins Lulu and Nana. Now, crucial details have been revealed in a recent release of excerpts from the study, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}