{"id":119455,"date":"2021-02-11T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/biotech-entrepreneur-george-church-launches-gene-therapy-startup-to-design-safer-viral-vectors"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:22:57","slug":"biotech-entrepreneur-george-church-launches-gene-therapy-startup-to-design-safer-viral-vectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/biotech-entrepreneur-george-church-launches-gene-therapy-startup-to-design-safer-viral-vectors","title":{"rendered":"Biotech entrepreneur George Church launches gene therapy startup to design safer viral vectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biotech-entrepreneur-george-church-launches-gene-therapy-startup-to-design-safer-viral-vectors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The adeno-associated viruses often used as vectors to deliver gene therapy can trigger unwanted and sometimes dangerous immune responses. Now, a Harvard University team led by renowned geneticist George Church, Ph.D., has developed a way to \u201ccloak\u201d AAVs from immune surveillance. They\u2019ve spun off Ally Therapeutics to develop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adeno-associated viruses often used as vectors to deliver gene therapy can trigger unwanted and sometimes dangerous immune responses. Now, a Harvard University team led by renowned geneticist George Church, Ph.D., has developed a way to \u201ccloak\u201d AAVs from immune surveillance. They\u2019ve spun off Ally Therapeutics to develop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119455","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\/119455","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}