{"id":34567,"date":"2017-02-14T23:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/us-scientists-have-cautiously-backed-permanent-gene-editing-in-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:13:27","slug":"us-scientists-have-cautiously-backed-permanent-gene-editing-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/us-scientists-have-cautiously-backed-permanent-gene-editing-in-humans","title":{"rendered":"US Scientists Have Cautiously Backed Permanent Gene Editing in Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-scientists-have-cautiously-backed-permanent-gene-editing-in-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a controversial move, a senior US scientific committee has given the green light to one of the most contentious forms of genome editing: where genetic changes made to human embryos will then be inherited by following generations.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a panel of experts from two of the most recognised scientific institutions in the US has advised that this process \u2013 called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germinal_choice_technology\">germline editing<\/a> \u2013 should be seriously considered as an option in the future, and not outright prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a considerably more positive tone than the assessment of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-debate-the-future-of-humanity-at-international-gene-editing-summit\">international summit of scientists in December 2015<\/a>, which declared that it would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/gene-editing-summit-supports-some-research-in-human-embryos-1.18947\">\u201cirresponsible to proceed\u201d<\/a> with germline editing unless safety issues and social consensus could be satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/us-scientists-have-cautiously-backed-permanent-gene-editing-in-humans\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/us-scientists-have-cautiously-ba...-in-humans<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a controversial move, a senior US scientific committee has given the green light to one of the most contentious forms of genome editing: where genetic changes made to human embryos will then be inherited by following generations. For the first time, a panel of experts from two of the most recognised scientific institutions in [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34567","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\/34567","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=34567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58719,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34567\/revisions\/58719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}