{"id":57112,"date":"2017-04-29T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-quest-to-cure-cancer-with-crispr"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T23:36:36","slug":"china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-quest-to-cure-cancer-with-crispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-quest-to-cure-cancer-with-crispr","title":{"rendered":"China Is Racing Ahead of the US in the Quest to Cure Cancer With CRISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-quest-to-cure-cancer-with-crispr.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While China does this, the people in the USA who use cancer to pay for their third homes and quarterly trips to Tahiti write papers saying CRISPR is a WMD and needs to be made illegal LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping China is able to pull it off.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On Friday, a team of Chinese scientists used the cutting-edge gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 on humans for the second time in history, injecting a cancer patient with modified human genes in hopes of vanquishing the disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-quest-to-cure-ca-1794749183\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/china-is-racing-ahead-of-the-us-in-the-qu...1794749183<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While China does this, the people in the USA who use cancer to pay for their third homes and quarterly trips to Tahiti write papers saying CRISPR is a WMD and needs to be made illegal LOL. Here\u2019s hoping China is able to pull it off. On Friday, a team of Chinese scientists used the [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57112","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\/57112","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=57112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57995,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57112\/revisions\/57995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}