{"id":218331,"date":"2025-07-20T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/could-down-syndrome-be-eliminated-scientists-say-cutting-edge-gene-editing-tool-could-cut-out-extra-chromosome"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:05:09","slug":"could-down-syndrome-be-eliminated-scientists-say-cutting-edge-gene-editing-tool-could-cut-out-extra-chromosome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/could-down-syndrome-be-eliminated-scientists-say-cutting-edge-gene-editing-tool-could-cut-out-extra-chromosome","title":{"rendered":"Could Down syndrome be eliminated? Scientists say cutting-edge gene editing tool could cut out extra chromosome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-down-syndrome-be-eliminated-scientists-say-cutting-edge-gene-editing-tool-could-cut-out-extra-chromosome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study reveals how CRISPR gene editing could potentially eradicate Down syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals how CRISPR gene editing could potentially eradicate Down syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218331","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}