{"id":14206,"date":"2015-05-08T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:50","slug":"chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378#auth-1\" data-popup-width=\"estimate\">David Cyranosk <\/a><\/span>&amp; <span class=\"vcard\"><a class=\"fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378#auth-2\" data-popup-width=\"estimate\">Sara Reardon\u00a0 - <a href=\"http:\/\/Nature.com\">Nature.com<\/a><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published<sup><a id=\"ref-link-1\" class=\"ref-link\" title=\"Liang, P. et al. Protein Cell http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13238-015-0153-5 (2015).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378#b1\">1<\/a><\/sup> in the online journal <i>Protein &amp; Cell<\/i> and confirm widespread rumours that such experiments had been conducted \u2014 rumours that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/doifinder\/10.1038\/nature.2015.17110\">sparked<\/a> a high-profile debate<i> <\/i>last month<sup><a id=\"ref-link-2\" class=\"ref-link\" title=\"Lanphier, E. et al. Nature 519, 410\u2013411 (2015).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378#b2\">2<\/a>, <a id=\"ref-link-3\" class=\"ref-link\" title=\"Baltimore, D. et al. Science 348, 36\u201338 (2015).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378#b3\">3<\/a><\/sup> about the ethical implications of such work. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cyranosk &amp; Sara Reardon \u2014 Nature.com In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published1 in the online journal Protein &amp; Cell and confirm widespread rumours that such experiments had been conducted \u2014 rumours that sparked a high-profile debate last month2, 3 about the ethical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64737,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/64737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}