{"id":25775,"date":"2016-05-16T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/should-we-synthesise-a-human-genome"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:06:20","slug":"should-we-synthesise-a-human-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/should-we-synthesise-a-human-genome","title":{"rendered":"Should we synthesise a human genome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-we-synthesise-a-human-genome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As specialists gather in private to discuss a grand plan for constructing a human genome, Drew Endy and Laurie Zoloth argue that such an enormous moral gesture should not be discussed behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Mario Tama\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At Harvard today<\/strong>, an invitation-only group of about 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, met to discuss if and how to construct from scratch an entire human genome \u2013 the heritable genetic material that in nature is transferred from parents to children.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/society\/should-we-synthesise-human-genome\">https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/society\/should-we-synthesise-human-genome<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As specialists gather in private to discuss a grand plan for constructing a human genome, Drew Endy and Laurie Zoloth argue that such an enormous moral gesture should not be discussed behind closed doors. Credit: Mario Tama\/Getty Images. At Harvard today, an invitation-only group of about 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, met to discuss if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,412,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-genetics","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions\/56401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}