{"id":72496,"date":"2017-09-12T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/is-human-genetic-modification-possible"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:41","slug":"is-human-genetic-modification-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/is-human-genetic-modification-possible","title":{"rendered":"Is Human Genetic Modification Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-human-genetic-modification-possible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR is a revolutionary gene editing technique that\u2019s taken the scientific world by storm. Both ultra-precise and easy to access, CRISPR could be the next step towards wiping out genetically inherited diseases and even curing cancers. A host of exciting CRISPR concepts are currently undergoing clinical trials and proof-of-concept experiments, with one particularly controversial focus \u2014 human embryos.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>A \u201ccut and paste\u201d concept<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>While there have been rumours coming out of China for years, US scientists have now confirmed that the first attempts to create genetically modified human embryos have been a success. Led by researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, the study used CRISPR to change the DNA of multiple one-cell human embryos. Basically, this allowed them to \u201csnip\u201d out segments of a particular genome and switch them with customised replacements. As in previous cases, the embryos were terminated several days after creation to prevent them from developing into foetuses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labmate-online.com\/news\/mass-spectrometry-and-spectroscopy\/41\/breaking-news\/is-human-genetic-modification-possible\/43826\">https:\/\/www.labmate-online.com\/news\/mass-spectrometry-and-sp...ible\/43826<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR is a revolutionary gene editing technique that\u2019s taken the scientific world by storm. Both ultra-precise and easy to access, CRISPR could be the next step towards wiping out genetically inherited diseases and even curing cancers. A host of exciting CRISPR concepts are currently undergoing clinical trials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72581,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72496\/revisions\/72581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}