{"id":222069,"date":"2017-07-28T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=222069"},"modified":"2017-07-28T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:33:34","slug":"us-scientists-successfully-change-embryo-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/222069-us-scientists-successfully-change-embryo-dna.html","title":{"rendered":"US scientists successfully change embryo DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of US researchers has changed the DNA of single-cell embryos using gene-editing technique CRISPR, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608350\/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MIT Technology Review<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first known attempt at creating genetically-modified human embryos in the US.<\/p>\n<p>None of the embryos were allowed to develop beyond a few days, but the scientists have demonstrated it is possible to safely correct defective genes using germline engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Human embryos allowed to develop following this process would also pass on gene corrections to their offspring.<\/p>\n<p>Germline engineering has the potential to eradicate genetic diseases and create &#8220;designer babies&#8221; with genetic enhancements.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/168005-lab-grown-mini-guts-open-door-to-personalised-medicine.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lab-grown mini-guts open door to personalised medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has changed the DNA of single-cell embryos using gene-editing technique CRISPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[44941,44943],"class_list":["post-222069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-embryo","tag-germline-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222073,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222069\/revisions\/222073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}