{"id":21178,"date":"2019-04-15T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:06:53","slug":"he-jiankui-embryo-editing-ccr5-the-london-patient-and-jumping-to-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/he-jiankui-embryo-editing-ccr5-the-london-patient-and-jumping-to-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"He Jiankui, embryo editing, CCR5, the London patient, and jumping to conclusions"},"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>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/HIV-cycle-illo-wellcome-e1555084767558-645x645.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption> <br>Illustration of HIV assembly and budding. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/12\/17\/crispr-shocker-genome-editing-scientist-he-jiankui\/\">DNA he had modified<\/a> when they were embryos using the CRISPR gene-editing tool, he justified his actions on the ground that he had given the two girls lifetime immunity from HIV infection.&nbsp; Read More<\/p>\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>When He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he had modified when they were embryos using the CRISPR gene-editing&#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-21178","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\/21178","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=21178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21212,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21178\/revisions\/21212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}