{"id":88241,"date":"2019-02-28T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-human-gene-editing-to-cure-disease"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:42:26","slug":"poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-human-gene-editing-to-cure-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-human-gene-editing-to-cure-disease","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Two Thirds of Americans Support Human Gene Editing to Cure Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/poll-two-thirds-of-americans-support-human-gene-editing-to-cure-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions about using technologies like CRISPR to gene edit human embryos gained immediacy last month, when Chinese scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/chinese-researchers-gene-edited-human-embryos-hiv-crispr\">claimed to have edited the genes<\/a> of two babies in order to protect them against HIV \u2014 a move that prompted an international outcry, but also questions about when the technology will be ready for human testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople appear to realize there\u2019s a major question of how we should oversee and monitor use of this technology if and when it becomes available,\u201d Columbia University bioethicist Robert Klitzman <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ef1161deac194f2ca1fd99457dc2cf15\">told the <em>AP<\/em><\/a> of the new research. \u201cWhat is safe enough? And who will determine that? The government? Or clinicians who say, \u2018Look, we did it in Country X a few times and it seems to be effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ef1161deac194f2ca1fd99457dc2cf15\">Poll: Edit baby genes for health, not smarts<\/a> [<em>Associated Press<\/em>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurism.com\/the-byte\/poll-two-thirds-americans-support-human-gene-editing\">https:\/\/www.futurism.com\/the-byte\/poll-two-thirds-americans-...ne-editing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about using technologies like CRISPR to gene edit human embryos gained immediacy last month, when Chinese scientists claimed to have edited the genes of two babies in order to protect them against HIV \u2014 a move that prompted an international outcry, but also questions about when the technology will be ready for human testing. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88241","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}