{"id":105362,"date":"2020-04-14T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/crispr-has-success-in-treating-mice-with-type-1-diabetes"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:44:29","slug":"crispr-has-success-in-treating-mice-with-type-1-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/crispr-has-success-in-treating-mice-with-type-1-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR has success in treating mice with type 1 diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-has-success-in-treating-mice-with-type-1-diabetes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Insulin-producing cells have been restored in mouse models of type 1 diabetes using a new genetic engineering technique.<\/p>\n<p>American scientists adapted the gene editing technology known as CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat) to successfully treat mouse models of type 1 diabetes, kidney disease and muscular dystrophy.<\/p>\n<p>CRISPR enables scientists to edit the genetic material of an organism allowing for DNA sequences to be easily altered and gene function to be modified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Insulin-producing cells have been restored in mouse models of type 1 diabetes using a new genetic engineering technique. American scientists adapted the gene editing technology known as CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeat) to successfully treat mouse models of type 1 diabetes, kidney disease and muscular dystrophy. CRISPR enables scientists to edit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105362","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}