{"id":110018,"date":"2020-07-16T04:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rna-repair-shows-promise-in-reversing-mutations-underlying-a-neurological-disorder"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:04:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T11:04:44","slug":"rna-repair-shows-promise-in-reversing-mutations-underlying-a-neurological-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rna-repair-shows-promise-in-reversing-mutations-underlying-a-neurological-disorder","title":{"rendered":"RNA repair shows promise in reversing mutations underlying a neurological disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rna-repair-shows-promise-in-reversing-mutations-underlying-a-neurological-disorder3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists successfully edited RNA in a living animal in such a way that the repaired RNA then corrected a mutation in a protein that gives rise to a debilitating neurological disorder in people known as Rett syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The advance by researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University publishes in the journal Cell Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first example of using programmable RNA editing to repair a gene in mouse models of a neurological disease,\u201d said senior author Gail Mandel, Ph.D., senior scientist in the OHSU Vollum Institute. \u201cThis gives us an approach that has some traction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists successfully edited RNA in a living animal in such a way that the repaired RNA then corrected a mutation in a protein that gives rise to a debilitating neurological disorder in people known as Rett syndrome. The advance by researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University publishes in the journal Cell Reports. \u201cThis is [\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-110018","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\/110018","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=110018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}