{"id":79312,"date":"2018-06-06T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitarian-access-to-gene-editing"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:22:21","slug":"crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitarian-access-to-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitarian-access-to-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"Crispr Fans Fight for Egalitarian Access to Gene Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitarian-access-to-gene-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A journalist, a soup exec, and an imam walk into a room. There\u2019s no joke here. It\u2019s just another day at <a href=\"https:\/\/crisprcon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CrisprCon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of scientists, industry folk, and public health officials from all over the world filled the amphitheater at the Boston World Trade Center to reckon with the power of biology\u2019s favorite new DNA-tinkering tool: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/wired-guide-to-crispr\/\">Crispr<\/a>. The topics were thorny\u2014from the ethics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/biopunks-are-pushing-the-limits-with-implants-and-diy-drugs\/\">self-experimenting biohackers<\/a> to the feasibility of pan-global governance structures. And more than once you could feel the air rush right out of the room. But that was kind of the point. CrisprCon is designed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/crispr-fans-dream-of-a-populist-future-for-gene-editing\/\">to make people uncomfortable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to talk about the monkey in the room,\u201d said Antonio Cosme, an urban farmer and community organizer in Detroit who appeared on a panel at the second annual conference devoted to Crispr\u2019s big ethical questions to talk about equitable access to gene editing technologies. He referred to the results of an audience poll that had appeared moments before in a word cloud behind him, with one bigger than all the others: \u201ceugenics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitarian-access-to-gene-editing\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/crispr-fans-fight-for-egalitaria...e-editing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist, a soup exec, and an imam walk into a room. There\u2019s no joke here. It\u2019s just another day at CrisprCon. On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of scientists, industry folk, and public health officials from all over the world filled the amphitheater at the Boston World Trade Center to reckon with the power of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,1759,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-governance","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79312","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}