{"id":117843,"date":"2020-12-31T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T03:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/4-ways-crispr-is-more-than-just-gene-editing"},"modified":"2020-12-31T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T03:24:54","slug":"4-ways-crispr-is-more-than-just-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/4-ways-crispr-is-more-than-just-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways CRISPR Is More Than Just Gene Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kh88cLtlclw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s probably most famous for its role in gene editing, CRISPR does more than just that: its ability to precisely cut and alter DNA could lead to new antibiotics, faster diagnosis tools, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by: Hank Green.<\/p>\n<p>SciShow has a spinoff podcast! 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Hosted by: Hank Green. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It\u2019s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http:\/\/www.scishowtangents.org. \u2014\u2014\u2014 Support [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117843","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\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}