{"id":82373,"date":"2018-09-06T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/u-n-talks-to-tackle-tough-question-who-should-benefit-from-dna-collected-from-the-high-seas"},"modified":"2018-09-06T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:22:27","slug":"u-n-talks-to-tackle-tough-question-who-should-benefit-from-dna-collected-from-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/u-n-talks-to-tackle-tough-question-who-should-benefit-from-dna-collected-from-the-high-seas","title":{"rendered":"U.N. talks to tackle tough question: Who should benefit from DNA collected from the high seas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-n-talks-to-tackle-tough-question-who-should-benefit-from-dna-collected-from-the-high-seas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The overarching goal of the talks, which open tomorrow at the United Nations in New York City, is crafting a new agreement to protect biodiversity in the high seas, which include two-thirds of the ocean. Much of discussions, which will run until 17 September, are expected to focus on long-standing proposals to establish protected zones where fishing and development would be limited or banned. But the negotiations also aim to replace today\u2019s free-for-all scramble for marine genetic resources with a more orderly and perhaps fairer regime.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nations open historic negotiations on marine biodiversity pact.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/09\/un-talks-tackle-tough-question-who-should-benefit-dna-collected-high-seas\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/09\/un-talks-tackle-tough...-high-seas<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overarching goal of the talks, which open tomorrow at the United Nations in New York City, is crafting a new agreement to protect biodiversity in the high seas, which include two-thirds of the ocean. Much of discussions, which will run until 17 September, are expected to focus on long-standing proposals to establish protected zones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}