{"id":239824,"date":"2026-06-27T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:24:01","slug":"first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene","title":{"rendered":"First use of precision editing to study human embryo development reveals role of master gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-development-reveals-role-of-master-gene3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique can be used to alter a single gene in human embryonic cells, enabling the study of very early human development in unparalleled detail. The study is published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique can be used to alter a single gene in human embryonic cells, enabling the study of very early human development in unparalleled detail. The study is published in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239824","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=239824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}