{"id":84852,"date":"2018-11-18T01:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T09:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ban-on-gene-drives-is-back-on-the-uns-agenda-worrying-scientists"},"modified":"2018-11-18T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T09:23:41","slug":"ban-on-gene-drives-is-back-on-the-uns-agenda-worrying-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ban-on-gene-drives-is-back-on-the-uns-agenda-worrying-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Ban on \u2018gene drives\u2019 is back on the UN\u2019s agenda \u2014 worrying scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ban-on-gene-drives-is-back-on-the-uns-agenda-worrying-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Government representatives from nearly 170 countries will this month consider whether to temporarily ban the release of organisms carrying gene drives \u2014 a controversial technology that can quickly propagate a chosen gene throughout a population. The technique has the potential to eradicate disease, control pests and alter entire ecosystems, but with unpredictable consequences \u2014 leading some groups to call for a global moratorium on its field applications.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Research is moving fast on the divisive genetic technology, which could help to eradicate diseases but also risks altering ecosystems in unpredictable ways.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07436-4\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;018&#45;07436&#45;4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government representatives from nearly 170 countries will this month consider whether to temporarily ban the release of organisms carrying gene drives \u2014 a controversial technology that can quickly propagate a chosen gene throughout a population. The technique has the potential to eradicate disease, control pests and alter entire ecosystems, but with unpredictable consequences \u2014 leading [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84852","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=84852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}