{"id":120739,"date":"2021-03-20T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/gene-therapy-using-zinc-fingers-may-help-treat-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2021-03-20T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T02:22:24","slug":"gene-therapy-using-zinc-fingers-may-help-treat-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/gene-therapy-using-zinc-fingers-may-help-treat-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Gene Therapy Using \u2018Zinc Fingers\u2019 May Help Treat Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-therapy-using-zinc-fingers-may-help-treat-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: A new genetic engineering strategy significantly reduces levels of tau in animal models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The treatment, which involves a single injection, appears to have long-last effects.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mass General.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau\u2013a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain during the development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u2013in an animal model of the condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new genetic engineering strategy significantly reduces levels of tau in animal models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The treatment, which involves a single injection, appears to have long-last effects. Source: Mass General. Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau\u2013a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120739","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=120739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}