{"id":75970,"date":"2018-02-13T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/creating-designer-babies-with-crispr-will-soon-be-possible"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T23:22:55","slug":"creating-designer-babies-with-crispr-will-soon-be-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/creating-designer-babies-with-crispr-will-soon-be-possible","title":{"rendered":"Creating designer babies with CRISPR will soon be possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creating-designer-babies-with-crispr-will-soon-be-possible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Designer babies have recently become possible, as new techniques have gained credibility from serious scientists. Here\u2019s how they can do it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/designer-babies-crispr-genetic-engineering\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Feb 8, the AHA named \u201cFixing a gene mutation in human embryos\u201d as among the \u201ctop advances in heart disease and stroke research\u201d of the past year. They joined a chorus of voices heralding this as a research breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement brought attention to the fact that US scientists have recently demonstrated the plausibility of using gene editing to make designer babies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/designer-babies-crispr-genetic-engineering\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/designer-babies-crispr-genetic-engineering\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Designer babies have recently become possible, as new techniques have gained credibility from serious scientists. Here\u2019s how they can do it. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] On Feb 8, the AHA named \u201cFixing a gene mutation in human embryos\u201d as among the \u201ctop advances in heart disease and stroke [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75970","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}