{"id":72255,"date":"2017-08-30T07:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/edited-embryos-mean-u-s-scientists-have-passed-a-major-milestone"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:42:40","slug":"edited-embryos-mean-u-s-scientists-have-passed-a-major-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/edited-embryos-mean-u-s-scientists-have-passed-a-major-milestone","title":{"rendered":"Edited embryos mean U.S. scientists have passed a major milestone"},"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\/-VmXFt0ZcoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that none of the embryos were allowed to develop for more than a few days, and that the team never had any intention of implanting them into a womb. However, it seems that this is largely due to ongoing regulatory issues, as opposed to issues with the technology itself.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, all efforts to turn edited embryos into a baby \u2014 to bring the embryo to full term \u2014 have been blocked by Congress, which added language to the Department of Health and Human Services funding bill that forbids it from approving any such clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/how-crispr-works-the-future-of-genetic-engineering\/\">Related: CRISPR-CAS9: The Future of Genetic Engineering (Infographic)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/edited-embryos-mean-u-s-scientists-have-passed-major-milestone-ncna787071?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/edited-embryos-mean-u-s...d_nn_fb_ma<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to note that none of the embryos were allowed to develop for more than a few days, and that the team never had any intention of implanting them into a womb. However, it seems that this is largely due to ongoing regulatory issues, as opposed to issues with the technology itself. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255","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=72255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}