{"id":97612,"date":"2019-10-19T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-unbelievable-journey-of-crispr-now-on-netflix"},"modified":"2019-10-19T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T23:22:30","slug":"the-unbelievable-journey-of-crispr-now-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-unbelievable-journey-of-crispr-now-on-netflix","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018unbelievable journey\u2019 of CRISPR, now on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-unbelievable-journey-of-crispr-now-on-netflix2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mankind\u2019s ability to edit the fabric of human life has led to scientific upheaval, global debate, and at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/12\/17\/crispr-shocker-genome-editing-scientist-he-jiankui\/\">international incident<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s coming to Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80208910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unnatural Selection<\/a>,\u201d a four-part docuseries debuting Friday, dissects the stories, science, and ethics behind genome editing, following academics, biohackers, and patients as they move through a brave new world made possible by technologies like CRISPR.<\/p>\n<p>We recently spoke with co-directors Joe Egender and Leeor Kaufman about how the series came to be and how it frames the sprawling story of human genetic engineering. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankind\u2019s ability to edit the fabric of human life has led to scientific upheaval, global debate, and at least one international incident. Now, it\u2019s coming to Netflix. \u201cUnnatural Selection,\u201d a four-part docuseries debuting Friday, dissects the stories, science, and ethics behind genome editing, following academics, biohackers, and patients as they move through a brave new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"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-97612","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\/97612","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=97612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}