{"id":35474,"date":"2017-03-19T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-terrifying-dna-discoveries-that-are-making-science-fiction-fact"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:44:34","slug":"the-terrifying-dna-discoveries-that-are-making-science-fiction-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-terrifying-dna-discoveries-that-are-making-science-fiction-fact","title":{"rendered":"The terrifying DNA discoveries that are making science-fiction fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-terrifying-dna-discoveries-that-are-making-science-fiction-fact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where parents can give birth to superbabies with bones so strong they\u2019re impervious to a surgical drill and a heart less prone to failure. A world where a child has DNA from three parents, not two. A world where it\u2019s possible for a woman to have her favorite movie star\u2019s child simply by collecting a few of his skin cells. Genetic technology is making it all a reality, horrifying some and heartening others.<\/p>\n<p>Reproductive advances are arriving so rapidly, we\u2019ve already entered the realm of science-fiction and are on the verge of making truly astounding leaps.<\/p>\n<p>For more, look to the new book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Gene-Machine-Genetic-Technologies-Changing-Have-Kids\/dp\/B01JZ72I4E?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids \u2014 and the Kids We Have\u201d<\/a> by Bonnie Rochman.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/19\/reproductive-technologys-future-is-incredible-and-questionable\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPFacebook&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;sr_share=facebook\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/19\/reproductive-technologys-future...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world where parents can give birth to superbabies with bones so strong they\u2019re impervious to a surgical drill and a heart less prone to failure. A world where a child has DNA from three parents, not two. A world where it\u2019s possible for a woman to have her favorite movie star\u2019s child simply [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48455,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions\/48455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}