{"id":86936,"date":"2019-01-22T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/chinese-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies-fired"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T02:22:31","slug":"chinese-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/chinese-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies-fired","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies-fired2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/china\/\">Chinese<\/a> scientist who created what he said were the world\u2019s first \u201cgene-edited\u201d babies evaded oversight and broke ethical boundaries in a quest for fame and fortune, state media said on Monday, as his former university said he had been fired.<\/p>\n<p>He Jiankui said in November that he used a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the embryonic genes of twin girls born that month, sparking an international outcry about the ethics and safety of such research.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Chinese and international scientists condemned He and said any application of gene editing on human embryos for reproductive purposes was unethical.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/22\/chinese-scientist-who-gene-edited-babies-fired-by-university.html?__source=facebook%7Cmain\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/01\/22\/chinese-scientist-who-gene-e...ook%7Cmain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world\u2019s first \u201cgene-edited\u201d babies evaded oversight and broke ethical boundaries in a quest for fame and fortune, state media said on Monday, as his former university said he had been fired. He Jiankui said in November that he used a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86936","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}