{"id":73333,"date":"2017-10-16T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/when-should-we-edit-human-genes-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2017-10-16T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:02:31","slug":"when-should-we-edit-human-genes-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/when-should-we-edit-human-genes-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"When Should We Edit Human Genes? What You Need to Know"},"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\/748iQNWb0QA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a difference between editing genes in a person\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/01\/15\/aging-and-death-are-the-evolutionary-price-of-complexity\/\">somatic cells and germline cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editing somatic cells, which are differentiated (e.g., skin cells) and non-reproductive, impacts them alone. In contrast, editing germline DNA means changes are passed along to the next generation during reproduction. It\u2019s no minor distinction.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the cautious consensus around gene editing in the US and parts of Europe is that it is okay to do therapeutic gene editing in a patient\u2019s somatic DNA, meaning DNA that only exists in that individual and does not get passed on. But some believe the cautious consensus may be too cautious.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/16\/when-should-we-edit-human-genes-what-you-need-to-know\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/10\/16\/when-should-we-edit-hu...d-to-know\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a difference between editing genes in a person\u2019s somatic cells and germline cells. Editing somatic cells, which are differentiated (e.g., skin cells) and non-reproductive, impacts them alone. In contrast, editing germline DNA means changes are passed along to the next generation during reproduction. It\u2019s no minor distinction. Right now, the cautious consensus around gene [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}