{"id":1995,"date":"2015-05-13T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T01:46:09","slug":"a-frightening-and-potentially-dangerous-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/a-frightening-and-potentially-dangerous-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A frightening and potentially dangerous technology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was how Otago University Prof Peter Dearden \u00a0from Genetics Otago<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/05\/Chinese-genome-scientist1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1998\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2015\/05\/Chinese-genome-scientist1.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese genome scientist(1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> described \u00a0a recent <a title=\"CRISPR\/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes\" href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs13238-015-0153-5\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>\u00a0by a groups of chinese scientists describing the first genetically modified human embryos and opening a route to germ-line modification of our own species.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out \u00a0and add your own views to the <a title=\"Genetically Modified Human Embryos\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/southern-genes\/2015\/05\/07\/genetically-modified-human-embryos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sciblogs<\/a> \u00a0comments \u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was how Otago University Prof Peter Dearden \u00a0from Genetics Otago described \u00a0a recent paper\u00a0by a groups of chinese scientists describing the first genetically modified human embryos and opening a route to germ-line modification of our own species. Check it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/a-frightening-and-potentially-dangerous-technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,5143,473,15,485,486,436,488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-evolution-biology","category-for-teachers","category-general","category-genetics","category-human-evolution","category-science-communication","category-speciation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}