{"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\"> < 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&order=resize,crop&type=jpg&c=3&a=9ac95963\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 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\u2019s 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 \u201cirresponsible\u201d 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 \u201cirresponsible\u201d 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":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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}]}}