{"id":30054,"date":"2019-01-21T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30054"},"modified":"2019-01-21T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T23:23:15","slug":"chinese-authorities-say-worlds-first-gene-edited-babies-were-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30054","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authorities say world&#8217;s first gene-edited babies were illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Authorities in China say experiments which led to the birth of the world&#8217;s first gene-edited babies broke the country&#8217;s laws, state-run Xinhua news reported Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In November, Chinese scientist He Jiankui sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/11\/29\/health\/human-genome-summit-investigation-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">international outrage<\/a> when he announced that twin girls &#8212; Lulu and Nana &#8212; had been born with modified DNA to make them resistant to HIV. He later revealed a second woman was pregnant as a result of the research.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">At the time, China&#8217;s National Health Commission &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2018\/11\/26\/health\/china-crispr-gene-editing-twin-babies-first-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">immediately requested the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission <\/a>to seriously investigate and verify&#8221; the claims made by the scientist.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Authorities in China say experiments which led to the birth of the world&#8217;s first gene-edited babies broke the country&#8217;s laws, state-run Xinhua news reported Monday.In November, Chinese scientist He Jiankui sparked international outrage when he announced that twin girls &#8212; Lulu and Nana &#8212; had been born with modified DNA to make them resistant to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}