{"id":153573,"date":"2022-12-25T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/documentary-spurs-a-new-look-at-the-case-of-the-first-gene-edited-babies"},"modified":"2022-12-25T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T19:23:14","slug":"documentary-spurs-a-new-look-at-the-case-of-the-first-gene-edited-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/documentary-spurs-a-new-look-at-the-case-of-the-first-gene-edited-babies","title":{"rendered":"Documentary spurs a new look at the case of the first gene-edited babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/documentary-spurs-a-new-look-at-the-case-of-the-first-gene-edited-babies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles, books and international commissions have reflected on whether and how heritable genome editing\u2014that is, modifying genes that will be passed on to the next generation\u2014should proceed. They\u2019ve reinforced an international consensus that it\u2019s premature to proceed with heritable genome editing. Yet, concern remains that some individuals might buck that consensus and recklessly forge ahead\u2014just as He Jiankui did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies with edited genes, numerous articles, books and international commissions have reflected on whether and how heritable genome editing\u2014that is, modifying genes that will be passed on to the next generation\u2014should proceed. They\u2019ve reinforced an international [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153573","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}