{"id":85233,"date":"2018-11-28T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-scientist-explains-why-the-alleged-crispr-babies-news-is-more-shocking-than-you-might-realise"},"modified":"2018-11-28T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T01:44:46","slug":"a-scientist-explains-why-the-alleged-crispr-babies-news-is-more-shocking-than-you-might-realise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-scientist-explains-why-the-alleged-crispr-babies-news-is-more-shocking-than-you-might-realise","title":{"rendered":"A Scientist Explains Why The Alleged CRISPR Babies News Is More Shocking Than You Might Realise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-scientist-explains-why-the-alleged-crispr-babies-news-is-more-shocking-than-you-might-realise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d\">appears<\/a> that researchers in China have facilitated the birth of the first \u201cdesigner baby\u201d \u2013 actually babies, twin girls who are supposedly genetically resistant to HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist who created the embryos, as well as some American scientists like Harvard\u2019s George Church, have praised the beneficent intent to producing a child who is resistant to disease.<\/p>\n<p>Who could argue with such good intentions?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-scientist-explains-why-the-alleged-crispr-babies-news-is-probably-more-shocking-than-you-realise\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-scientist-explains-why-the...ou-realise<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that researchers in China have facilitated the birth of the first \u201cdesigner baby\u201d \u2013 actually babies, twin girls who are supposedly genetically resistant to HIV. The scientist who created the embryos, as well as some American scientists like Harvard\u2019s George Church, have praised the beneficent intent to producing a child who is resistant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85233","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\/85233","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=85233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}