{"id":3609,"date":"2016-07-19T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:21:43","slug":"do-crispr-enthusiasts-have-their-head-in-the-sand-about-the-safety-of-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Do CRISPR enthusiasts have their head in the sand about the safety of gene editing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you\u2019d\u00a0expect researchers to show pretty slides of the ribbony 3-D structure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/21\/crispr-human-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\">CRISPR-Cas9<\/a> molecules neatly snipping out disease-causing genes in order\u00a0to, everyone hopes, cure illnesses from cancer to muscular dystrophy. Less expected: slides of someone kneeling on a beach with his head in the sand. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/18\/crispr-off-target-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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) WASHINGTON \u2014 At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you\u2019d\u00a0expect researchers to show pretty slides of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}