{"id":125981,"date":"2021-08-07T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/crispr-stops-rare-genetic-disease-in-groundbreaking-human-trial"},"modified":"2021-08-07T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T02:22:47","slug":"crispr-stops-rare-genetic-disease-in-groundbreaking-human-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/crispr-stops-rare-genetic-disease-in-groundbreaking-human-trial","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR Stops Rare Genetic Disease In Groundbreaking Human Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-stops-rare-genetic-disease-in-groundbreaking-human-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene-editing technique CRISPR may deliver new treatments for genetic diseases\u2014and it\u2019s already being tested on patients.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>17:22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the first clinical applications of the technique, last month researchers reported in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> that CRISPR had stopped a genetic disease called amyloidosis, which occurs when an abnormal protein accumulates in your organs. They\u2019re not the only group moving toward using CRISPR on humans; recently, the FDA approved a human clinical trial that will use the technique to edit genes responsible for sickle cell disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene-editing technique CRISPR may deliver new treatments for genetic diseases\u2014and it\u2019s already being tested on patients. 17:22 minutes. In one of the first clinical applications of the technique, last month researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that CRISPR had stopped a genetic disease called amyloidosis, which occurs when an abnormal protein accumulates [\u2026]<\/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-125981","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\/125981","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=125981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}