{"id":28502,"date":"2016-09-11T00:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/genetic-surgery-is-closer-to-reality\/"},"modified":"2016-09-11T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:51:12","slug":"genetic-surgery-is-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/genetic-surgery-is-closer-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic surgery is closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Genetic surgery is far away for humans \u2014 Optimism concerning application of genetic experiments to improve mankind is unwarranted now, a Canadian pediatrician told the Third International Congress of Human Genetics meeting in Chicago\u2026. Although striking and sometimes controversial experiments in genetic surgery have in fact been performed in multicellular systems, he explained, public demand seems likely to outstrip scientific resources for the treat}ment of many forms of genetic disease. \u2014 Science News, September 24, 1966<\/p>\n<p>{{UPDATE}}<\/p>\n<p>Things are looking up for \u201cgenetic surgery.\u201d Gene therapy has been around since the 1980s, but researchers have recently developed more precise gene-editing tools, including one that sent a child\u2019s leukemia into remission in 2015. Scientists are most excited about a molecular scalpel known as CRISPR\/Cas9 that cuts and manipulates DNA (SN: 9\/3\/16, p. 22). Researchers are optimistic about the tool\u2019s potential to treat several diseases, but it may be a while before CRISPR is widely used.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14891 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/090116_cm_50ya_main.jpg\" alt=\"SCALPEL, PLEASE  The development of gene-editing tools like TALENs and CRISPR\/Cas9 may soon make \u2018genetic surgery\u2019 a reality.  \u2028\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Genetic surgery is far away for humans \u2014 Optimism concerning application of genetic experiments to improve mankind is unwarranted now, a Canadian pediatrician told the Third International Congress of Human Genetics meeting in Chicago\u2026. Although striking and sometimes controversial experiments in genetic surgery have in fact been performed in multicellular systems, he explained, public demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[2486],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-science-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2486,"name":"SCIENCE NEWS","slug":"science-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2486,"name":"SCIENCE NEWS","slug":"science-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}