{"id":106791,"date":"2020-05-08T15:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/crispr-used-inside-a-persons-body-for-the-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:23:26","slug":"crispr-used-inside-a-persons-body-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/crispr-used-inside-a-persons-body-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR Used Inside a Person\u2019s Body for the First Time Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pp17E4E-O8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Doctors at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health &amp; Science University in Portland have announced the first-ever use of the revolutionary gene editing tool, <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/crispr-genome-designer-babies-embryos\/\">CRISPR<\/a>, inside of a person\u2019s body. The tool was used to modify the genes responsible for a particular form of inherited blindness, and those responsible for the pioneering effort say there is real potential here to not only restore the patient\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/teslas-autopilot-vision-terminator-hud\/\">vision<\/a>, but open up a new line of medicines specifically used to target and alter DNA.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/17fcd6ae57d39d06b72ca40fe7cee461\"><em>Associated Press<\/em> report<\/a>, which comes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/doctors-use-crispr-gene-editing-inside-person-s-body-first-n1149711\">NBC<\/a>, the companies that make the treatment used in the procedure, including Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Editas Medicine and Dublin-based Allergan, highlighted the possibilities moving forward if the trial proves to be successful. Charles Albright, chief scientific officer at Editas, said that \u201cWe literally have the potential to take people who are essentially blind and make them see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"light\"><p>Scientists at the OHSU <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyEye?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CaseyEye<\/a> Institute have injected a harmless virus containing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CRISPR?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CRISPR<\/a> gene-editing instructions inside the retinal cells of a patient with a rare form of genetic blindness. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NPR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robsteinnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobSteinNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3ar3l3M\"><a href=\"https:\/\/n.pr\/3ar3l3M\">https:\/\/n.pr\/3ar3l3M<\/a><\/a>\u2014 OHSU News (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHSUNews\">@OHSUNews<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHSUNews\/status\/1235943221471166467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health &amp; Science University in Portland have announced the first-ever use of the revolutionary gene editing tool, CRISPR, inside of a person\u2019s body. The tool was used to modify the genes responsible for a particular form of inherited blindness, and those responsible for the pioneering effort say [\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-106791","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\/106791","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=106791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}