{"id":120987,"date":"2021-03-29T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/crispr-fixes-rare-mutation-for-the-first-time-in-a-live-animal"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:12:11","slug":"crispr-fixes-rare-mutation-for-the-first-time-in-a-live-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/crispr-fixes-rare-mutation-for-the-first-time-in-a-live-animal","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR Fixes Rare Mutation for the First Time in a Live Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-fixes-rare-mutation-for-the-first-time-in-a-live-animal3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the case of DMD caused by a duplication mutation, CRISPR can simply snip away the harmful duplicate gene, which is much simpler than delivering a new gene or replacing the old.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For the first time in a live animal, researchers have successfully reversed a gene mutation, called a \u201cduplication mutation,\u201d by gene editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of DMD caused by a duplication mutation, CRISPR can simply snip away the harmful duplicate gene, which is much simpler than delivering a new gene or replacing the old. For the first time in a live animal, researchers have successfully reversed a gene mutation, called a \u201cduplication mutation,\u201d by gene editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120987","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\/120987","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}