{"id":28368,"date":"2016-07-28T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/u-s-wary-on-biotech-advances-gene-editing-crispr-raising-urgency"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:01","slug":"u-s-wary-on-biotech-advances-gene-editing-crispr-raising-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/u-s-wary-on-biotech-advances-gene-editing-crispr-raising-urgency","title":{"rendered":"U.S. wary on biotech advances; gene editing, CRISPR \u2018raising urgency\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-wary-on-biotech-advances-gene-editing-crispr-raising-urgency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We can rebuild him; we have the technology\u2014but Americans question if we should in a new survey designed to assess attitudes to modern biotechnology advances.<\/p>\n<p>A new report, based on a survey of 4,700 U.S. adults coming out of the Pew Research Center, looked at a range of views on certain advances in biology, with opinions split on the ethics and long-term problems associated with enhancing human capacity.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about gene editing, the majority of those surveyed, 68%, said they would be \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat\u201d worried about its implications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercebiotech.com\/biotech\/u-s-wary-biotech-advances-gene-editing-crispr-raising-urgency-debate\">http:\/\/www.fiercebiotech.com\/biotech\/u-s-wary-biotech-advanc...ncy-debate<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. We can rebuild him; we have the technology\u2014but Americans question if we should in a new survey designed to assess attitudes to modern biotechnology advances. A new report, based on a survey of 4,700 U.S. adults coming out of the Pew Research Center, looked at a range of views on certain advances in biology, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66761,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28368\/revisions\/66761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}