{"id":102086,"date":"2020-02-08T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-trial-shows-3-cancer-patients-had-their-genomes-altered-safely"},"modified":"2020-02-08T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T19:03:51","slug":"us-trial-shows-3-cancer-patients-had-their-genomes-altered-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/us-trial-shows-3-cancer-patients-had-their-genomes-altered-safely","title":{"rendered":"US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-trial-shows-3-cancer-patients-had-their-genomes-altered-safely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers-genetically-alter-the-immune-system-of-cancer-patients-without-side-effect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>US scientists have succeeded in genetically editing the immune systems of three cancer patients using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/crispr-gene-editing\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CRISPR\">CRISPR<\/a>, without creating any side effects, a first for the tool which is revolutionizing biomedical research.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated results from the first phase of a clinical trial were published in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/02\/05\/science.aba7365\">Science<\/a><\/em> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They represent a stepping stone that doesn\u2019t yet prove CRISPR can be used to fight cancer. Indeed, one of the patients has since died and the disease has worsened in the other two \u2014 but the trial does show that the technique is non-toxic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers-genetically-alter-the-immune-system-of-cancer-patients-without-side-effect. US scientists have succeeded in genetically editing the immune systems of three cancer patients using CRISPR, without creating any side effects, a first for the tool which is revolutionizing biomedical research. The highly anticipated results from the first phase of a clinical trial were published in the journal Science on Thursday. They represent a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}