{"id":550675,"date":"2018-11-29T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6fb1daac78e089016d8f137bac15f64b"},"modified":"2018-11-29T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:58:23","slug":"china-orders-halt-to-gene-editing-after-outcry-over-babies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=550675","title":{"rendered":"China orders halt to gene-editing after outcry over babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=AL9JUMj72go:F6ZRsDqPId0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=AL9JUMj72go:F6ZRsDqPId0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=AL9JUMj72go:F6ZRsDqPId0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=AL9JUMj72go:F6ZRsDqPId0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=AL9JUMj72go:F6ZRsDqPId0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/AL9JUMj72go\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to research activities for people involved in the editing of human genes, after a Chinese scientist said he had edited the genes of twin babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550676,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550675\/revisions\/550676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}