{"id":111638,"date":"2020-08-19T23:36:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-use-gene-hacking-to-seemingly-cure-herpes-in-mice"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:36:57","slug":"scientists-use-gene-hacking-to-seemingly-cure-herpes-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/scientists-use-gene-hacking-to-seemingly-cure-herpes-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-gene-hacking-to-seemingly-cure-herpes-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI HOPE THIS STUDY CHANGES THE DIALOG AROUND HERPES RESEARCH AND OPENS UP THE IDEA THAT WE CAN START THINKING ABOUT CURE, RATHER THAN JUST CONTROL OF THE VIRUS.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a landmark study, researchers have successfully used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice.<\/p>\n<p>While previous research has mostly focused on treating and suppressing the sometimes painful symptoms of herpes, this study took a more radical approach by attempting to eliminate the virus altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big jump here is from doing this in test tubes to doing this in an animal,\u201d Keith Jerome, researcher at the University of Washington\u2019s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and senior author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-17936-5\">new study<\/a> about the research published today in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20200818\/Gene-editing-approach-removes-oral-herpes.aspx\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cI hope this study changes the dialog around herpes research and opens up the idea that we can start thinking about cure, rather than just control of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI HOPE THIS STUDY CHANGES THE DIALOG AROUND HERPES RESEARCH AND OPENS UP THE IDEA THAT WE CAN START THINKING ABOUT CURE, RATHER THAN JUST CONTROL OF THE VIRUS.\u201d In a landmark study, researchers have successfully used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. While previous research has mostly focused on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111638","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\/111638","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}