{"id":157272,"date":"2023-02-07T19:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientist-who-gene-edited-human-babies-says-mistakes-were-made"},"modified":"2023-02-07T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:24:37","slug":"scientist-who-gene-edited-human-babies-says-mistakes-were-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientist-who-gene-edited-human-babies-says-mistakes-were-made","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Who Gene Edited Human Babies Says Mistakes Were Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-who-gene-edited-human-babies-says-mistakes-were-made2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese geneticist He Jiankui <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/gene-edited-babies-scientist-missing\" class=\"\">rocked the scientific world<\/a> with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018, a highly controversial use of the technology that ended up sending him to a three-year stint in prison for illegal medical practices.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just under a year after being released, He has some regrets about rushing into the experiments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did it too quickly,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3209289\/we-should-respect-them-chinese-creator-worlds-first-gene-edited-humans-says\" class=\"\">told the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em><\/a> in a new interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese geneticist He Jiankui rocked the scientific world with his gene-edited baby experiments back in 2018, a highly controversial use of the technology that ended up sending him to a three-year stint in prison for illegal medical practices. Now, just under a year after being released, He has some regrets about rushing into the experiments. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157272","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}