{"id":80889,"date":"2018-07-23T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/designer-babies-on-horizon-as-ethics-council-gives-green-light-to-genetically-edited-embryos"},"modified":"2018-07-23T23:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:04:24","slug":"designer-babies-on-horizon-as-ethics-council-gives-green-light-to-genetically-edited-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/designer-babies-on-horizon-as-ethics-council-gives-green-light-to-genetically-edited-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Designer babies on horizon as ethics council gives green light to genetically edited embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designer-babies-on-horizon-as-ethics-council-gives-green-light-to-genetically-edited-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designer babies are on the horizon after an influential group of scientists concluded that it could be \u2018morally permissible\u2019 to genetically engineer human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report which opens the door to a change in the law, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nuffieldbioethics.org\/\">Nuffield Council on Bioethics,<\/a> said that DNA editing could become an option for parents wanting to \u2018influence the genetic characteristics of their child.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Although it would be largely used to cure devastating genetic illnesses, or predispositions to cancers and dementia, the experts said they were not ruling out cosmetic uses such as making tweaks to increase height or changing eye or hair colour, if it would make a child more successful.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/16\/designer-babies-horizon-ethics-council-gives-green-light-genetically\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/07\/16\/designer-babi...netically\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer babies are on the horizon after an influential group of scientists concluded that it could be \u2018morally permissible\u2019 to genetically engineer human embryos. In a new report which opens the door to a change in the law, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, said that DNA editing could become an option for parents wanting to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,412,1496,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-genetics","category-law","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80889","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}