{"id":33312,"date":"2017-01-09T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/how-crispr-gene-editing-puts-scientists-in-the-drivers-seat-of-evolution"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:21","slug":"how-crispr-gene-editing-puts-scientists-in-the-drivers-seat-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/how-crispr-gene-editing-puts-scientists-in-the-drivers-seat-of-evolution","title":{"rendered":"How CRISPR gene editing puts scientists in the driver\u2019s seat of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-crispr-gene-editing-puts-scientists-in-the-drivers-seat-of-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR can help us end many diseases and guide evolution and is probably one of the most powerful tools we have recently added to our toolkit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagine you could edit a mouse\u2019s genes to be resistant to Lyme Disease. The mouse would breed and evolution would take its course, leading to the extinction of the disease. That\u2019s the vision for scientists developing CRISPR, technology that allows scientists to rewrite the code of life. William Brangham talks to Michael Specter who wrote about CRISPR for The New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/crispr-gene-editing-puts-scientists-drivers-seat-evolution\/?utm_content=bufferc4230&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/crispr-gene-editing-puts-scie...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR can help us end many diseases and guide evolution and is probably one of the most powerful tools we have recently added to our toolkit. Imagine you could edit a mouse\u2019s genes to be resistant to Lyme Disease. The mouse would breed and evolution would take its course, leading to the extinction of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33312","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65406,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33312\/revisions\/65406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}