{"id":72749,"date":"2017-09-21T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-discover-master-gene-crucial-for-successful-pregnancy"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T22:22:41","slug":"scientists-discover-master-gene-crucial-for-successful-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-discover-master-gene-crucial-for-successful-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover \u2018master gene\u2019 crucial for successful pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-master-gene-crucial-for-successful-pregnancy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>S cientists have edited human embryos for the first time in the UK to discover a \u201cmaster gene\u201d that underpins successful pregnancies. The \u201cgame-changing\u201d research promises improved IVF outcomes and a breakthrough in understanding why so many pregnancies fail.<\/p>\n<p>The Government-funded investigation, undertaken by the Francis Crick Institute, is the first to prove that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/scientists-call-britain-take-lead-gene-editing-prevent-diseases\/\">gene editing<\/a> can be used to study the genetic behaviour of human embryos in their first few days of life.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/09\/20\/scientists-discover-master-gene-crucial-successful-pregnancy\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/09\/20\/scientists-dis...pregnancy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S cientists have edited human embryos for the first time in the UK to discover a \u201cmaster gene\u201d that underpins successful pregnancies. The \u201cgame-changing\u201d research promises improved IVF outcomes and a breakthrough in understanding why so many pregnancies fail. The Government-funded investigation, undertaken by the Francis Crick Institute, is the first to prove that gene [\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-72749","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\/72749","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=72749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}