{"id":34522,"date":"2017-02-14T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/u-s-experts-soften-on-dna-editing-of-human-eggs-sperm-embryos"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:09","slug":"u-s-experts-soften-on-dna-editing-of-human-eggs-sperm-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/u-s-experts-soften-on-dna-editing-of-human-eggs-sperm-embryos","title":{"rendered":"U.S. experts soften on DNA editing of human eggs, sperm, embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-experts-soften-on-dna-editing-of-human-eggs-sperm-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Julie Steenhuysen<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) \u2014 Powerful gene editing tools may one day be used on human embryos, eggs and sperm to remove genes that cause inherited diseases, according to a report by U.S. scientists and ethicists released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine said scientific advances make gene editing in human reproductive cells \u201ca realistic possibility that deserves serious consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-soften-dna-editing-human-eggs-sperm-embryos-160345374.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-soften-dna-editing-hum...45374.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) \u2014 Powerful gene editing tools may one day be used on human embryos, eggs and sperm to remove genes that cause inherited diseases, according to a report by U.S. scientists and ethicists released on Tuesday. The report from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34522","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\/34522","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58738,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions\/58738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}