{"id":30072,"date":"2016-09-12T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/darpa-working-on-safe-gene-editing-research"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:09:22","slug":"darpa-working-on-safe-gene-editing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/darpa-working-on-safe-gene-editing-research","title":{"rendered":"DARPA working on safe Gene Editing Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-working-on-safe-gene-editing-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-09-07\" target=\"blank\">DARPA\u2019s Safe Genes program aims to build a biosafety and biosecurity toolkit to reduce potential risks and encourage innovation in the field of genome editing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Safe Genes program could help unlock the potential of advanced gene editing technologies by developing a set of tools to address potential risks of this rapidly advancing field. The Safe Genes program envisions addressing key safety gaps by using those tools to restrict or reverse the propagation of engineered genetic constructs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGene editing holds incredible promise to advance the biological sciences, but right now responsible actors are constrained by the number of unknowns and a lack of controls,\u201d said Renee Wegrzyn, DARPA program manager. \u201cDARPA wants to develop controls for gene editing and derivative technologies to support responsible research and defend against irresponsible actors who might intentionally or accidentally release modified organisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/darpa-working-on-safe-gene-editing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29&utm_content=FaceBook&m=1\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/darpa-working-on-safe-g...ceBook&m=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA\u2019s Safe Genes program aims to build a biosafety and biosecurity toolkit to reduce potential risks and encourage innovation in the field of genome editing The Safe Genes program could help unlock the potential of advanced gene editing technologies by developing a set of tools to address potential risks of this rapidly advancing field. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072","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=30072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30072\/revisions\/56419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}