{"id":35392,"date":"2017-03-16T20:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/chinese-researchers-announce-designer-baby-breakthrough"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:56","slug":"chinese-researchers-announce-designer-baby-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/chinese-researchers-announce-designer-baby-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-researchers-announce-designer-baby-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn \u2013 or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers used a genome editing technique called CRISPR to rid normal embryos of hereditary diseases that cause blood disorders and other ailments, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2123973-first-results-of-crispr-gene-editing-of-normal-embryos-released\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to New Scientist<\/a>. Experts who reviewed the project told the publication that, even though it involved just six embryos, it carries promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is encouraging,\u201d Robin Lovell-Badge, a human genome expert at the Francis Crick Institute in London, told New Scientist.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2017\/03\/16\/chinese-researchers-announce-designer-baby-breakthrough.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2017\/03\/16\/chinese-researcher...rough.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn \u2013 or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects. Chinese researchers used a genome editing technique called CRISPR to rid normal embryos of hereditary diseases that cause blood disorders and other ailments, according to New Scientist. Experts who reviewed the project told [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392","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=35392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58386,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions\/58386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}