{"id":168365,"date":"2023-07-26T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/chinese-scientist-he-jiankui-proposes-controversial-gene-editing-research-on-embryos"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:23:31","slug":"chinese-scientist-he-jiankui-proposes-controversial-gene-editing-research-on-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/chinese-scientist-he-jiankui-proposes-controversial-gene-editing-research-on-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist He Jiankui proposes controversial gene-editing research on embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientist-he-jiankui-proposes-controversial-gene-editing-research-on-embryos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who faced international condemnation in 2018 for creating the first gene-edited children, has presented a new research proposal involving modifying human embryos to address the challenges of the ageing population. He, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 for \u201cillegal medical practices,\u201d resurfaced last year and announced the opening of a research lab in Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who faced international condemnation in 2018 for creating the first gene-edited children, has presented a new research proposal involving modifying human embryos to address the challenges of the ageing population. He, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 for \u201cillegal medical practices,\u201d resurfaced last year and announced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1493,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law-enforcement","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168365","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=168365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}