{"id":49789,"date":"2015-05-13T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_embryo_engineering_a_moral_duty_says_top_scientist\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:00:41","slug":"bbc_embryo_engineering_a_moral_duty_says_top_scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49789","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Embryo engineering a moral duty, says top scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be unethical and a &#8220;sin of omission&#8221; to prevent the genetic engineering of embryos, a leading scientist has argued.<\/p>\n<p>Cloning pioneer Dr Tony Perry told the BBC that advances in genetics posed a &#8220;wonderful opportunity&#8221; for eliminating diseases such as cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a group in China announced it was the first to successfully edit the genome of a human embryo.<\/p>\n<p>Other scientists say it is unnecessary and a line that should not be crossed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-32633510\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be unethical and a &#8220;sin of omission&#8221; to prevent the genetic engineering of embryos, a leading scientist has argued. Cloning pioneer Dr Tony Perry told the BBC that advances in genetics posed a &#8220;wonderful opportunity&#8221; for eliminating diseases<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49789\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,199,168,104,114,96,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}