{"id":186774,"date":"2024-04-04T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/are-you-ready-for-crispr-because-the-gene-editing-technology-is-already-impacting-the-food-we-eat"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T19:23:35","slug":"are-you-ready-for-crispr-because-the-gene-editing-technology-is-already-impacting-the-food-we-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/are-you-ready-for-crispr-because-the-gene-editing-technology-is-already-impacting-the-food-we-eat","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready for CRISPR? Because the gene-editing technology is already impacting the food we eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-you-ready-for-crispr-because-the-gene-editing-technology-is-already-impacting-the-food-we-eat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard about the gene-editing technology<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/CRISPR\">CRISPR<\/a><\/strong>. The massive biotech breakthrough, which has emerged in the last decade, has mainly been touted for the ways it will <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/12\/26\/crispr-gene-editing-had-a-breakthrough-year-and-its-only-getting-started\/\">let scientists edit the human genome<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 hopefully to cure genetic diseases or perhaps, more worryingly, to create \u201cdesigner babies.\u201d But CRISPR is also being used in another area, the world of food.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural anthropologist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dal.academia.edu\/LaurenCrosslandMarr\">Dr. Lauren Crossland-Marr<\/a><\/strong> hosts the five-episode podcast <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2240386\">A CRISPR Bite<\/a><\/strong>. She <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/acrisprbite\/\">takes listeners into labs<\/a><\/strong> as researchers tinker with the genes in what we eat and drink. What, exactly, are they trying to achieve? And what\u2019s at stake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably heard about the gene-editing technology CRISPR. The massive biotech breakthrough, which has emerged in the last decade, has mainly been touted for the ways it will let scientists edit the human genome \u2014 hopefully to cure genetic diseases or perhaps, more worryingly, to create \u201cdesigner babies.\u201d But CRISPR is also being used in [\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-186774","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\/186774","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=186774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}