{"id":94411,"date":"2019-08-04T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/george-church-told-us-why-hes-listing-superhuman-gene-hacks"},"modified":"2019-08-04T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T10:44:13","slug":"george-church-told-us-why-hes-listing-superhuman-gene-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/george-church-told-us-why-hes-listing-superhuman-gene-hacks","title":{"rendered":"George Church Told Us Why He\u2019s Listing Superhuman Gene Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/george-church-told-us-why-hes-listing-superhuman-gene-hacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/harvard-list-genes-superhuman\">we wrote about<\/a> a database of mutations that could give people superhuman characteristics or medical benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The database, which reads like a real-life skill tree from a video game, is housed on the website of famed <a href=\"http:\/\/arep.med.harvard.edu\/gmc\/protect.html\">Harvard geneticist George Church<\/a>. Now Church has opened up, telling Futurism why he assembled the list and how he hopes others will use it as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/harvard-gene-hacked-stem-cells-living-organism\">gene-hacking technology<\/a> develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, we wrote about a database of mutations that could give people superhuman characteristics or medical benefits. The database, which reads like a real-life skill tree from a video game, is housed on the website of famed Harvard geneticist George Church. Now Church has opened up, telling Futurism why he assembled the list and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94411","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\/94411","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}