{"id":20025,"date":"2019-03-20T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:53:16","slug":"un-gene-editing-for-human-reproduction-is-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/un-gene-editing-for-human-reproduction-is-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Gene editing for human reproduction is &#8216;irresponsible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"gallery-image\">\n<div class=\"stage-image image-current\">\n<div style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.deseretdigital.com\/file\/7f25320146?resize=width_1200&amp;order=resize,crop&amp;type=jpg&amp;c=3&amp;a=9ac95963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; In this Oct. 9, 2018 file photo, a researcher installs a fine glass pipette into a microscope in preparation for injecting embryos with Cas9 protein and PCSK9 sgRNA at a lab in Shenzhen in southern China&#8217;s Guandong province. On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, an expert committee convened by the World Health Organization is calling for the U.N. health agency to create a global registry of scientists working on gene editing. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein, File)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A panel convened by the World Health Organization said it would be &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; for scientists to use gene editing for reproductive purposes, but stopped short of calling for a ban.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/900061353\/un-gene-editing-for-human-reproduction-is-irresponsible.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A panel convened by the World Health Organization said it would be &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; for scientists to use gene editing for reproductive purposes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}