{"id":124882,"date":"2021-07-13T07:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gene-editing-blocks-virus-transmission-in-human-cells"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:22:36","slug":"gene-editing-blocks-virus-transmission-in-human-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/gene-editing-blocks-virus-transmission-in-human-cells","title":{"rendered":"Gene editing \u2018blocks virus transmission\u2019 in human cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-editing-blocks-virus-transmission-in-human-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the virus is recognised, the CRISPR enzyme is activated and chops up the virus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Paris (AFP) <\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to successfully block the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected human cells, according to research released Tuesday that could pave the way for Covid-19 treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the journal Nature Communications, researchers in Australia said the tool was effective against viral transmissions in lab tests, adding that they hoped to begin animal trials soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce the virus is recognised, the CRISPR enzyme is activated and chops up the virus,\u201d she said. Paris (AFP) Scientists have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to successfully block the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in infected human cells, according to research released Tuesday that could pave the way for Covid-19 treatments. Writing in the journal [\u2026]<\/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-124882","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\/124882","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=124882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}