{"id":103312,"date":"2020-03-05T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/crispr-scientists-hack-patients-genes-in-bid-to-cure-blindness"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:03:33","slug":"crispr-scientists-hack-patients-genes-in-bid-to-cure-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/crispr-scientists-hack-patients-genes-in-bid-to-cure-blindness","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR Scientists Hack Patient\u2019s Genes in Bid to Cure Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-scientists-hack-patients-genes-in-bid-to-cure-blindness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, doctors have attempted to cure blindness by gene-hacking a patient<strong> <\/strong>with CRISPR technology.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Oregon Health &amp; Science Institute injected three droplets of fluid that delivered the CRISPR DNA fragments directly into a patient\u2019s eyeball, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/17fcd6ae57d39d06b72ca40fe7cee461\">The Associated Press<\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/17fcd6ae57d39d06b72ca40fe7cee461\">reports<\/a>, in hopes that it will reverse a rare genetic condition called Leber congenital amaurosis, which causes blindness early in childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe literally have the potential to take people who are essentially blind and make them see,\u201d Charles Albright, chief scientific officer of Editas Medicine, told the <em>AP<\/em>. Editas is one of the biotech companies that actually developed the treatment. \u201cWe think it could open up a whole new set of medicines to go in and change your DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, doctors have attempted to cure blindness by gene-hacking a patient with CRISPR technology. A team from Oregon Health &amp; Science Institute injected three droplets of fluid that delivered the CRISPR DNA fragments directly into a patient\u2019s eyeball, The Associated Press reports, in hopes that it will reverse a rare genetic condition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103312","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}