{"id":29977,"date":"2016-09-08T16:18:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/darpa-reveals-program-to-address-safety-gaps-in-gene-editing"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:18","slug":"darpa-reveals-program-to-address-safety-gaps-in-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/darpa-reveals-program-to-address-safety-gaps-in-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"DARPA reveals program to address \u2018safety gaps\u2019 in gene editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"http:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/bc\/rtmp_uds\/1418450360\/2015\/09\/18\/1418450360_4494016895001_4493915789001.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Recent plans to use these techniques to obstruct mosquitoes\u2019 disease-carrying abilities have raised concerns from both experts and the public, and some have even argued that the tool can be used to create biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has revealed a new program that aims to set a \u2018safe course\u2019 for this field, with hopes that their toolkit can work both to support bio-innovation and combat bio-threats.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3780455\/Is-Darpa-preparing-GENE-WARFARE-Agency-reveals-new-program-address-safety-gaps-gene-editing-techniques.html?ITO=1490\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3780455\/Is-Da...l?ITO=1490<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent plans to use these techniques to obstruct mosquitoes\u2019 disease-carrying abilities have raised concerns from both experts and the public, and some have even argued that the tool can be used to create biological weapons. Now, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has revealed a new program that aims to set a \u2018safe course\u2019 [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977","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=29977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39576,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions\/39576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}