{"id":112282,"date":"2020-09-01T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/crispr-edited-babies-born-in-china-may-have-enhanced-brain-functions"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:44:04","slug":"crispr-edited-babies-born-in-china-may-have-enhanced-brain-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/crispr-edited-babies-born-in-china-may-have-enhanced-brain-functions","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR-edited babies born in China may have enhanced brain functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-edited-babies-born-in-china-may-have-enhanced-brain-functions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years after the classic Star Trek episode \u201cSpace Seed,\u201d life imitates art\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The controversial decision to genetically edit the embryos of two girls born in China last year might have enhanced their memory and cognition, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientist He Jiankui reported in November that he\u2019d used the CRISPR editing tool to delete a gene called CCR5, which enables humans to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In addition to potentially blocking the development of AIDS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(19)30107-2\">recent research<\/a> suggests knocking out CCR5 can also make mice smarter and help the human brain recover from strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years after the classic Star Trek episode \u201cSpace Seed,\u201d life imitates art\u2026 The controversial decision to genetically edit the embryos of two girls born in China last year might have enhanced their memory and cognition, scientists say. Chinese scientist He Jiankui reported in November that he\u2019d used the CRISPR editing tool to delete a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112282","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\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112284,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112282\/revisions\/112284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}