{"id":28827,"date":"2016-08-11T02:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-china-is-likely-to-spearhead-the-future-of-genetic-enhancement"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:59:57","slug":"why-china-is-likely-to-spearhead-the-future-of-genetic-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/why-china-is-likely-to-spearhead-the-future-of-genetic-enhancement","title":{"rendered":"Why China is likely to spearhead the future of genetic enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-china-is-likely-to-spearhead-the-future-of-genetic-enhancement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/g-owen-schaefer-209688\">G. Owen Schaefer<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/national-university-of-singapore\">National University of Singapore<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Would you want to alter your future children\u2019s genes to make them smarter, stronger or better-looking? As the state of the science brings prospects like these closer to reality, an <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/search?q=human+enhancement\">international debate<\/a> has been raging over the ethics of enhancing human capacities with biotechnologies such as so-called smart pills, brain implants and gene editing. This discussion has only intensified in the past year with the advent of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neb.sg\/tools-and-resources\/feature-articles\/crispr-cas9-and-targeted-genome-editing-a-new-era-in-molecular-biology\">CRISPR-cas9 gene editing tool<\/a>, which raises the specter of tinkering with our DNA to improve traits like intelligence, athleticism and even moral reasoning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/08\/why-china-is-likely-to-spearhead-the-future-of-genetic-enhancement\/\">https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/08\/why-china-is-likely-to-spea...hancement\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Owen Schaefer, National University of Singapore Would you want to alter your future children\u2019s genes to make them smarter, stronger or better-looking? As the state of the science brings prospects like these closer to reality, an international debate has been raging over the ethics of enhancing human capacities with biotechnologies such as so-called smart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28827","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60852,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28827\/revisions\/60852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}