{"id":551011,"date":"2018-12-03T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c5dcc4177a23ce7ac71b9c3c767cfa9e"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:57:20","slug":"screening-the-human-future-youtube-persuasion-and-genetically-engineered-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=551011","title":{"rendered":"Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world&#8217;s first genetically engineered children: twins, created by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because they&#8217;re inheritable \u2013 &#8220;editing the germline&#8221; \u2013 are widely prohibited by law and avoided by scientific consensus. If He really did this, it&#8217;s a very big step across a very bright line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world&#8217;s first genetically engineered children: twins, created by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because they&#8217;re inheritable &ndash; &#8220;editing the germline&#8221; &ndash; are widely prohibited by law and avoided by scientific consensus. If He really did this, it&#8217;s a very big step across a very bright line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551011","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551012,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551011\/revisions\/551012"}],"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=551011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}