{"id":122497,"date":"2021-05-11T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/aids-virus-used-in-gene-therapy-to-fix-bubble-baby-disease"},"modified":"2021-05-11T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T17:22:19","slug":"aids-virus-used-in-gene-therapy-to-fix-bubble-baby-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/aids-virus-used-in-gene-therapy-to-fix-bubble-baby-disease","title":{"rendered":"AIDS virus used in gene therapy to fix \u2018bubble baby\u2019 disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aids-virus-used-in-gene-therapy-to-fix-bubble-baby-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Results show that all but two of the 50 children who were given the experimental therapy in a study now have healthy germ-fighting abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking what otherwise would have been a fatal disease\u201d and healing most of these children with a single treatment, said study leader Dr. Donald Kohn of UCLA Mattel Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday. Results show that all but two of the 50 children who were given the experimental therapy in a study now have healthy germ-fighting abilities. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122497","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=122497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}