{"id":91945,"date":"2019-06-11T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/russian-biologist-pledges-to-create-more-crispr-edited-babies"},"modified":"2019-06-11T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:22:23","slug":"russian-biologist-pledges-to-create-more-crispr-edited-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/russian-biologist-pledges-to-create-more-crispr-edited-babies","title":{"rendered":"Russian Biologist Pledges to Create More CRISPR-Edited Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-biologist-pledges-to-create-more-crispr-edited-babies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m crazy enough to do it,\u201d he told <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rebrikov plans to target CCR5, the same gene as He, which could theoretically make the babies immune to HIV. But experts say the risks and unknowns \u2014 including the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/gene-edited-babies-die-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premature death<\/a> \u2014 vastly outweigh any potential benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology is not ready,\u201d CRISPR-Cas9 co-inventor Jennifer Doudna told <em>Nature <\/em>of Rebrikov\u2019s plans. \u201cIt is not surprising, but it is very disappointing and unsettling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/russian-biologist-more-crispr-edited-babies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m crazy enough to do it,\u201d he told Nature. Rebrikov plans to target CCR5, the same gene as He, which could theoretically make the babies immune to HIV. But experts say the risks and unknowns \u2014 including the possibility of premature death \u2014 vastly outweigh any potential benefits. \u201cThe technology is not ready,\u201d [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91945","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=91945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}