{"id":13692,"date":"2015-03-14T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13692"},"modified":"2023-08-25T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:11:50","slug":"engineering-the-perfect-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/engineering-the-perfect-baby","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the Perfect Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-the-perfect-baby.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/contributor\/antonio-regalado\/\">Antonio Regalado<\/a> \u2014 MIT Technology Review<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.<\/p>\n<p>At his labyrinthine laboratory on the Harvard Medical School campus, you can find researchers giving <em>E. Coli <\/em>a novel genetic code never seen in nature. Around another bend, others are carrying out a plan to use DNA engineering to resurrect the woolly mammoth. His lab, Church likes to say, is the center of a new technological genesis\u2014one in which man rebuilds creation to suit himself.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2015\/03\/05\/249167\/engineering-the-perfect-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Antonio Regalado \u2014 MIT Technology Review If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it. At his labyrinthine laboratory on the Harvard Medical School campus, you can find researchers giving E. Coli a novel genetic code never seen in nature. Around another bend, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1628,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170461,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions\/170461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}