{"id":57763,"date":"2017-05-29T01:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/for-the-first-time-ever-crispr-gene-editing-was-used-in-humans-so-whats-next"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:09","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-crispr-gene-editing-was-used-in-humans-so-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/for-the-first-time-ever-crispr-gene-editing-was-used-in-humans-so-whats-next","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, CRISPR Gene Editing Was Used in Humans. So What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jAhjPd4uNFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With Chinese scientists announcing that they have tested CRISPR on a human for the first time, the U.S. must decide soon whether it will be a leader or a follower in advancing the tech. <\/li>\n<li>While gene editing technology could be used in nefarious ways, it could also cure diseases and improve millions of lives, but we won\u2019t know how effective it is until we begin human trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the middle part of the 20th century saw the world\u2019s superpowers racing to explore space, the first global competition of this century is being set in a much smaller arena: our DNA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/crispr-tested-on-a-person\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/crispr-tested-on-a-person\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Chinese scientists announcing that they have tested CRISPR on a human for the first time, the U.S. must decide soon whether it will be a leader or a follower in advancing the tech. While gene editing technology could be used in nefarious ways, it could also cure diseases and improve millions of lives, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763","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=57763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57939,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57763\/revisions\/57939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}