{"id":186623,"date":"2024-04-02T06:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/chinese-scientist-jailed-for-designer-babies-renews-genome-editing-research-interview"},"modified":"2024-04-02T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:25:50","slug":"chinese-scientist-jailed-for-designer-babies-renews-genome-editing-research-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/chinese-scientist-jailed-for-designer-babies-renews-genome-editing-research-interview","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist jailed for designer babies renews genome-editing research: interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientist-jailed-for-designer-babies-renews-genome-editing-research-interview2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 In 2018, Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced the birth of the world\u2019s first genome-edited babies, and was subsequently imprisoned in China. In his first solo interview with Japanese media, he revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun that he has resumed research on human embryo genome editing for the treatment of genetic diseases while adhering to international rules, and claimed \u201csociety will eventually accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 In 2018, Chinese researcher He Jiankui announced the birth of the world\u2019s first genome-edited babies, and was subsequently imprisoned in China. In his first solo interview with Japanese media, he revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun that he has resumed research on human embryo genome editing for the treatment of genetic diseases while adhering [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186623","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=186623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}