{"id":72007,"date":"2017-08-20T02:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/china-rushes-into-embryo-selection"},"modified":"2017-08-20T02:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T09:22:32","slug":"china-rushes-into-embryo-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/china-rushes-into-embryo-selection","title":{"rendered":"China rushes into embryo selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-rushes-into-embryo-selection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s five year plan to eliminate birth defects by preimplantation genetic diagnosis of embryos. <\/p>\n<p>Gene-editing with CRISPR has been in the headlines over the past month and touted as a way of eliminating genetic diseases. But the cruder and cheaper technique of preimplantation genetic diagnosis does the same. And it is exploding in China. According to a feature in Nature, fertility doctors there \u201chave been pursuing a more aggressive, comprehensive and systematic path towards its use there than anywhere else\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s current five-year plan for economic development has made reproductive medicine, including PGD, a priority. In 2004, only four clinics in the whole country were licensed to perform PGD; now there are 40.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Very little ethical push-back exists.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bioedge.org\/bioethics\/china-rushes-into-embryo-selection\/12399\">https:\/\/www.bioedge.org\/bioethics\/china-rushes-into-embryo-selection\/12399<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s five year plan to eliminate birth defects by preimplantation genetic diagnosis of embryos. Gene-editing with CRISPR has been in the headlines over the past month and touted as a way of eliminating genetic diseases. But the cruder and cheaper technique of preimplantation genetic diagnosis does the same. And it is exploding in China. According [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,412,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-genetics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72007","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}