{"id":167912,"date":"2023-07-20T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/genetic-engineering-giants-is-china-poised-to-lead-the-way"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:23:48","slug":"genetic-engineering-giants-is-china-poised-to-lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/genetic-engineering-giants-is-china-poised-to-lead-the-way","title":{"rendered":"Genetic engineering giants: is China poised to lead the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-engineering-giants-is-china-poised-to-lead-the-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal, and gene-edited babies may spring to mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, although it is true that nearly five years ago, researcher He Jiankui infamously claimed he had created the first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6813942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gene-edited babies<\/a>, before going to prison for three years, China has continued to pour a lot of money into genetic engineering research, and aims to become a global leader in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accumulative amount of financing in the gene therapy field in China has exceeded $3.3 billion. Also, according to a Frost &amp; Sullivan study, it is estimated that by 2025, gene therapy will reach a scale of nearly $17.89 billion in China,\u201d said Fiona Gao, founding partner of Chinsiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many people, when they hear China and genetic engineering in the same sentence, it is often synonymous with scandal, and gene-edited babies may spring to mind. And, although it is true that nearly five years ago, researcher He Jiankui infamously claimed he had created the first ever gene-edited babies, before going to prison for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167912","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=167912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}