{"id":32979,"date":"2016-12-27T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-use-terrifying-genetic-engineering-technology"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:27:24","slug":"college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-use-terrifying-genetic-engineering-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-use-terrifying-genetic-engineering-technology","title":{"rendered":"College Students Show How Easy It Is to Use Terrifying Genetic Engineering Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-use-terrifying-genetic-engineering-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gene drive is quickly becoming one of the most controversial technologies of our time. Its possibilities are at once spectacular and alarming: by using genetic engineering to override natural selection during reproduction, a gene drive could allow scientists to alter the genetic makeup of an entire species. This could be used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/mosquitoes-engineered-to-pass-down-genes-that-would-wipe-out-their-species-1.18974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eliminate diseases<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/601383\/the-plan-to-rescue-hawaiis-birds-with-genetic-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protect natural habitats <\/a>\u2014but could also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2015\/11\/12\/gene-drive-bioterror-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go horribly wrong<\/a> in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-use-terrifying-1790526457\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/college-students-show-how-easy-it-is-to-u...1790526457<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gene drive is quickly becoming one of the most controversial technologies of our time. Its possibilities are at once spectacular and alarming: by using genetic engineering to override natural selection during reproduction, a gene drive could allow scientists to alter the genetic makeup of an entire species. This could be used to eliminate diseases [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59343,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions\/59343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}