{"id":72126,"date":"2017-08-24T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/will-gene-editing-allow-us-to-rid-the-world-of-diseases"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:42:50","slug":"will-gene-editing-allow-us-to-rid-the-world-of-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/will-gene-editing-allow-us-to-rid-the-world-of-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Will Gene Editing Allow Us to Rid the World of Diseases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-gene-editing-allow-us-to-rid-the-world-of-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists recently used a gene-editing tool to fix a mutation in a human embryo. Around the world, researchers are chasing cures for other genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the gene-editing genie is out of the bottle, what would you wish for first?<\/p>\n<p>Babies with \u201cperfect\u201d eyes, over-the-top intelligence, and a touch of movie star charisma?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/will-gene-editing-allow-us-to-rid-world-of-diseases#1\">http:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/will-gene-editing-allo...diseases#1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists recently used a gene-editing tool to fix a mutation in a human embryo. Around the world, researchers are chasing cures for other genetic diseases. Now that the gene-editing genie is out of the bottle, what would you wish for first? Babies with \u201cperfect\u201d eyes, over-the-top intelligence, and a touch of movie star charisma?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72126","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}