{"id":244889,"date":"2026-10-03T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/the-next-bioweapon-could-attack-our-genes-instead-of-our-bodies-i-promise-you-were-not-ready-for-that"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T02:05:49","slug":"the-next-bioweapon-could-attack-our-genes-instead-of-our-bodies-i-promise-you-were-not-ready-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/the-next-bioweapon-could-attack-our-genes-instead-of-our-bodies-i-promise-you-were-not-ready-for-that","title":{"rendered":"The Next Bioweapon Could Attack Our Genes Instead of Our Bodies. I Promise You We\u2019re Not Ready for That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-bioweapon-could-attack-our-genes-instead-of-our-bodies-i-promise-you-were-not-ready-for-that.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most devastating weapons conceived by humanity cause cellular damage as a side effect. What would happen if the genetic mutation itself were the nefarious goal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most devastating weapons conceived by humanity cause cellular damage as a side effect. What would happen if the genetic mutation itself were the nefarious goal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244889","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=244889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}