{"id":4071,"date":"2015-04-18T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T01:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2015-04-29T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:23:04","slug":"scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists genetically modify human embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In a world first, scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Chinese researchers using &#8216;non-viable&#8217; embryos which cannot result in a live birth in order to attempt to modify the gene responsible for a potentially fatal blood disorder called \u03b2-thalassaemia.\u00a0They used a gene-editing technique known as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CRISPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CRISPR\/Cas9<\/a><\/em> (pronounced \u2018crisper\u2019) which allows you \u00a0to cut an organism&#8217;s genome at any desired location.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The authors conclude that serious obstacles still exist before using this method in medical applications.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>The story have provoked an <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-genetically-modify-human-embryos-1.17378?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ethical debate<\/a><\/span>. Our colleagues at the SMC UK have gathered comments.<\/em><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs13238-015-0153-5\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April 18<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Junjiu Huang, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, and Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world first, scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. Chinese researchers using &#8216;non-viable&#8217; embryos which cannot result in a live birth in order to attempt to modify the gene responsible for a potentially fatal blood disorder called \u03b2-thalassaemia.\u00a0They used a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR\/Cas9 (pronounced \u2018crisper\u2019) which allows you \u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1274,909,51,53,476,1290],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-dna","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}