{"id":24813,"date":"2023-07-20T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/nih-director-on-human-gene-editing-we-must-never-allow-our-technology-to-eclipse-our-humanity\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T20:56:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:56:43","slug":"nih-director-on-human-gene-editing-we-must-never-allow-our-technology-to-eclipse-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/nih-director-on-human-gene-editing-we-must-never-allow-our-technology-to-eclipse-our-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Director on Human Gene Editing: &#8216;We Must Never Allow our Technology to Eclipse our Humanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In this article by Francis Collins (<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/health\/nih-director-on-human-gene-editing-we-must-never-allow-our-technology-to<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px -1px 0px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">) t<\/span>he Director of the NIH describes the scientific desire to forge ahead, despite a moratorium on genome editing. Why might scientists want to pursue these activities, even though there is a moratorium? Are there scenarios in which forging ahead might be acceptable?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article by Francis Collins (https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/health\/nih-director-on-human-gene-editing-we-must-never-allow-our-technology-toLinks to an external site.) the Director of the NIH describes the scientific desire to forge ahead, despite a moratorium on genome editing. Why might scientists want to pursue these activities, even though there is a moratorium? Are there scenarios in which forging ahead might be acceptable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/24813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/24813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=24813"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=24813"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=24813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}