{"id":220633,"date":"2016-02-01T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=220633"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:18:01","slug":"editing-embryo-genes-now-allowed-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/editing-embryo-genes-now-allowed-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing embryo genes now allowed in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British scientists have been given the go-ahead to edit he genes of human embryos for research.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist from London&#8217;s Francis Crick Institute, was granted a licence to carry out similar experiments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has approved a research application from the Francis Crick Institute to use new &#8216;gene editing&#8217; techniques on human embryos,&#8221; Niakan&#8217;s lab said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It said the work carried out &#8220;will be for research purposes and will look at the first seven days of a fertilised egg&#8217;s development, from a single cell to around 250 cells&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The basic research could help scientists understand why some women lose their babies before term and provide better clinical treatments for infertility, using conventional medical methods.<\/p>\n<p>The authorization has already been described by the media which say it could lead to the creation of Britain\u2019s first genetically modified human embryos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/01\/448265\/Editing-genes-of-embryos-allowed-in-UK-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British scientists have been given the go-ahead to edit he genes of human embryos for research.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist from London&#8217;s Francis Crick Institute, was granted a licence to carry out similar experiments. &#8220;The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has approved a research application from the Francis Crick Institute to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}