{"id":109750,"date":"2020-07-09T23:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/for-the-first-time-scientists-find-a-way-to-make-targeted-edits-to-mitochondrial-dna"},"modified":"2020-07-09T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:08:56","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-find-a-way-to-make-targeted-edits-to-mitochondrial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/for-the-first-time-scientists-find-a-way-to-make-targeted-edits-to-mitochondrial-dna","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Scientists Find a Way to Make Targeted Edits to Mitochondrial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-find-a-way-to-make-targeted-edits-to-mitochondrial-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most cells in your body come with two genetic libraries; one in the nucleus, and the other inside structures called <a href=\"https:\/\/micro.magnet.fsu.edu\/cells\/mitochondria\/mitochondria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mitochondria<\/a> \u2014 also known as the \u2018powerhouses of the cell\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, we\u2019ve only had a way to make changes to one.<\/p>\n<p>A combined effort by several research teams in the US has led to a process that could one day allow us to modify the instructions making up the cell\u2019s \u2018other\u2019 genome, and potentially treat a range of conditions that affect how we power our bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most cells in your body come with two genetic libraries; one in the nucleus, and the other inside structures called mitochondria \u2014 also known as the \u2018powerhouses of the cell\u2019. Until now, we\u2019ve only had a way to make changes to one. A combined effort by several research teams in the US has led to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109750","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\/109750","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}