{"id":103318,"date":"2020-03-05T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/doctors-use-crispr-gene-editing-inside-a-persons-body-for-first-time"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:02:49","slug":"doctors-use-crispr-gene-editing-inside-a-persons-body-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/doctors-use-crispr-gene-editing-inside-a-persons-body-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Doctors use CRISPR gene editing inside a person\u2019s body for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-use-crispr-gene-editing-inside-a-persons-body-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say they have used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/doctors-try-crispr-gene-editing-cancer-1st-us-n1077281\" target=\"_blank\">gene editing tool CRISPR<\/a> inside someone\u2019s body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A patient recently had it done at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health &amp; Science University in Portland for an inherited form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/luxturna-gene-therapy-blindness-cost-850-000-n834261\" target=\"_blank\">blindness<\/a>, the companies that make the treatment announced Wednesday. They would not give details on the patient or when the surgery occurred.<\/p>\n<p>It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision. If the first few attempts seem safe, doctors plan to test it on 18 children and adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone\u2019s body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A patient recently had it done at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health &amp; Science University in Portland for an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103318","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}