{"id":32201,"date":"2016-11-25T21:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:16:59","slug":"genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess","title":{"rendered":"Genetic engineering: Who cleans up the mess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Scientists believe genetic engineering experiments have the potential to wipe out malaria and other illnesses that kill millions of people every year.<\/p>\n<p>But they also acknowledge they could have unintended consequences that could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>So, over the next four years, the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, dubbed DARPA, plans to develop a cleanup crew for engineered genes deemed harmful to the eco-system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/11\/genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess\/\">http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2016\/11\/genetic-engineering-who-cleans-up-the-mess\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Scientists believe genetic engineering experiments have the potential to wipe out malaria and other illnesses that kill millions of people every year. But they also acknowledge they could have unintended consequences that could be catastrophic. So, over the next four years, the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, dubbed DARPA, plans to develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201","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=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49544,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions\/49544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}