{"id":159735,"date":"2023-03-07T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/forget-designer-babies-heres-how-crispr-is-really-changing-lives"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:23:47","slug":"forget-designer-babies-heres-how-crispr-is-really-changing-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/forget-designer-babies-heres-how-crispr-is-really-changing-lives","title":{"rendered":"Forget designer babies. Here\u2019s how CRISPR is really changing lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-designer-babies-heres-how-crispr-is-really-changing-lives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget about He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2018\/11\/25\/138962\/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies\/\">gene-edited babies<\/a>. Instead, when you think about gene editing you should think of Victoria Gray, the African-American woman who says she\u2019s been cured of her sickle-cell disease symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>This week in London, scientists are gathering for the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/science-events-and-lectures\/2023\/03\/2023-human-genome-editing-summit\/\">Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing<\/a>. It\u2019s gene editing\u2019s big event, where researchers get to awe the audience with their new ability to modify DNA\u2014and ethicists get to worry about what it all means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies. Instead, when you think about gene editing you should think of Victoria Gray, the African-American woman who says she\u2019s been cured of her sickle-cell disease symptoms. This week in London, scientists are gathering for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. It\u2019s gene [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159735","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}