{"id":12065,"date":"2018-11-26T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2018-11-26T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T14:32:35","slug":"claim-of-crisprd-baby-girls-stuns-genome-editing-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12065","title":{"rendered":"Claim of CRISPR\u2019d baby girls stuns genome editing summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">H<\/span><\/span>ONG KONG \u2014 A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/11\/25\/china-first-gene-edited-babies-born\/\">Chinese scientist\u2019s claim<\/a>\u00a0that he used the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the DNA of human embryos, resulting in the birth a few weeks ago of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/11\/26\/gene-edited-babies-birth-announcement-youtube\/\">twin girls<\/a>, stunned organizers of the International Summit on Human Genome Editing, leaving them scrambling to evaluate the claim two days before the scientist is scheduled to speak at the meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/11\/26\/claim-of-crispred-baby-girls-stuns-genome-editing-summit\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) HONG KONG \u2014 A\u00a0Chinese scientist\u2019s claim\u00a0that he used the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to alter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}