{"id":154081,"date":"2023-01-01T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-former-kindred-bio-execs-launch-crispr-designed-pets-company-adorapet-biosciences"},"modified":"2023-01-01T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T06:24:11","slug":"genomics-pioneer-george-church-former-kindred-bio-execs-launch-crispr-designed-pets-company-adorapet-biosciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-former-kindred-bio-execs-launch-crispr-designed-pets-company-adorapet-biosciences","title":{"rendered":"Genomics pioneer George Church, former Kindred Bio execs launch CRISPR-designed pets company AdoraPet Biosciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-former-kindred-bio-execs-launch-crispr-designed-pets-company-adorapet-biosciences2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Peninsula biotech startup cofounded by pioneering geneticist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/2022\/12\/30\/sanfrancisco\/search\/results?q=George Church\">George Church<\/a> \u2014 who already is working to engineer the woolly mammoth out of extinction \u2014 is trying to raise as much as $5 million in a crowdfunding effort to design healthier, longer-living pets.<\/p>\n<p>AdoraPet Biosciences Inc. of San Mateo plans to apply the genome-engineering CRISPR technology at the egg stage of dogs and cats or insert CRISPR-modified DNA into eggs, to make nonallergenic pets that don\u2019t shed and ultimately live longer, are free of genetic diseases caused by inbreeding and are resistant to cancer and other serious diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Peninsula biotech startup cofounded by pioneering geneticist George Church \u2014 who already is working to engineer the woolly mammoth out of extinction \u2014 is trying to raise as much as $5 million in a crowdfunding effort to design healthier, longer-living pets. AdoraPet Biosciences Inc. of San Mateo plans to apply the genome-engineering CRISPR technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154081","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}