{"id":14699,"date":"2015-06-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:57:17","slug":"crispr-the-disruptor-heidi-ledford-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/crispr-the-disruptor-heidi-ledford-nature","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR, the disruptor \u2014 Heidi Ledford | Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearchers are considering how CRISPR could or should be deployed on organisms in the wild. Much of the attention has focused on a method called gene drive, which can quickly sweep an edited gene through a population. The work is at an early stage, but such a technique could be used to wipe out disease-carrying mosquitoes or ticks, eliminate invasive plants or eradicate herbicide resistance in pigweed, which plagues some US farmers.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/crispr-the-disruptor-1.17673\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cResearchers are considering how CRISPR could or should be deployed on organisms in the wild. Much of the attention has focused on a method called gene drive, which can quickly sweep an edited gene through a population. The work is at an early stage, but such a technique could be used to wipe out disease-carrying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1628,1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-dna","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699","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=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64694,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/64694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}