{"id":21966,"date":"2016-02-11T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/uk-will-use-crispr-on-human-embryos-a-step-closer-to-human-genome-editing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:40","slug":"uk-will-use-crispr-on-human-embryos-a-step-closer-to-human-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/uk-will-use-crispr-on-human-embryos-a-step-closer-to-human-genome-editing","title":{"rendered":"UK Will Use CRISPR on Human Embryos \u2014 a Step Closer to Human Genome Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-will-use-crispr-on-human-embryos-a-step-closer-to-human-genome-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, Kathy Niakan, a biologist working at the Francis Crick Institute in London received the green light from the UK\u2019s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to use genome editing technique <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/01\/21\/crisprcas9-genome-editing-is-a-huge-deal-but-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\">CRISPR\/Cas9<\/a> on human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>Niakan hopes to answer important questions about how healthy human embryos develop from a single cell to around 250 cells, in the first seven days after fertilization.<\/p>\n<p>By removing certain genes during this early development phase using CRISPR\/Cas9, Niakan and her team hope to understand what causes miscarriages and infertility, and in the future, possibly improve the effectiveness of in-vitro fertilization and provide better treatments for infertility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/02\/07\/uk-will-use-crispr-on-human-embryos-a-step-closer-to-human-genome-editing\/?utm_content=buffer7940a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Kathy Niakan, a biologist working at the Francis Crick Institute in London received the green light from the UK\u2019s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to use genome editing technique CRISPR\/Cas9 on human embryos. Niakan hopes to answer important questions about how healthy human embryos develop from a single cell to around 250 cells, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966","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\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68511,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions\/68511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}