{"id":103253,"date":"2020-03-04T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/crispr-was-just-used-in-a-bid-to-restore-sight-to-a-blind-person"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:44:06","slug":"crispr-was-just-used-in-a-bid-to-restore-sight-to-a-blind-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/crispr-was-just-used-in-a-bid-to-restore-sight-to-a-blind-person","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR was just used in a bid to restore sight to a blind person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-was-just-used-in-a-bid-to-restore-sight-to-a-blind-person2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gene-editing tool CRISPR has been used for the first time inside the body of an adult, in an attempt to cure a form of blindness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The treatment<\/strong>: According to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/17fcd6ae57d39d06b72ca40fe7cee461\">Associated Press<\/a>, doctors dripped just a few drops of a gene-editing mixture beneath the retina of a patient in Oregon who suffers from Leber congenital amaurosis, a rare inherited disease that leads to progressive vision loss.<\/p>\n<p>Cells that take up the mixture can have their DNA permanently corrected, potentially restoring a degree of vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gene-editing tool CRISPR has been used for the first time inside the body of an adult, in an attempt to cure a form of blindness. The treatment: According to the Associated Press, doctors dripped just a few drops of a gene-editing mixture beneath the retina of a patient in Oregon who suffers from Leber [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103253","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\/103253","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}