{"id":219589,"date":"2025-08-07T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-quest-to-create-gene-edited-babies-gets-a-reboot"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:04:44","slug":"the-quest-to-create-gene-edited-babies-gets-a-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/the-quest-to-create-gene-edited-babies-gets-a-reboot","title":{"rendered":"The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-quest-to-create-gene-edited-babies-gets-a-reboot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a fresh push to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent diseases and enhance characteristics that parents value. Bioethicists say just because it\u2019s possible doesn\u2019t mean it should be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a fresh push to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent diseases and enhance characteristics that parents value. Bioethicists say just because it\u2019s possible doesn\u2019t mean it should be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219589","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=219589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}