{"id":92252,"date":"2019-06-17T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/chinese-scientist-defends-splicing-human-brain-gene-into-monkeys"},"modified":"2019-06-17T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:03:23","slug":"chinese-scientist-defends-splicing-human-brain-gene-into-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/chinese-scientist-defends-splicing-human-brain-gene-into-monkeys","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientist-defends-splicing-human-brain-gene-into-monkeys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, a team of Chinese scientists published a study detailing how they made monkeys smarter by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/chinese-scientists-super-monkeys-human-brain-genes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">splicing a human gene<\/a> into their DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The news was met by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/4\/12\/18306867\/china-genetics-monkey-brain-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wave of backlash<\/a>. But now, one of the scientists behind the study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/12\/asia\/monkey-brain-human-china-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defending the team\u2019s work<\/a> \u2014 and pledging to push forward on the controversial research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, a team of Chinese scientists published a study detailing how they made monkeys smarter by splicing a human gene into their DNA. The news was met by a wave of backlash. But now, one of the scientists behind the study is defending the team\u2019s work \u2014 and pledging to push forward on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92252","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}