{"id":127114,"date":"2021-09-02T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/crispr-just-proved-genes-can-self-heal-in-space-for-the-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:22:39","slug":"crispr-just-proved-genes-can-self-heal-in-space-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/crispr-just-proved-genes-can-self-heal-in-space-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR just proved genes can self-heal in space for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-just-proved-genes-can-self-heal-in-space-for-the-first-time-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If in space, no one can hear you scream, then what happens when DNA silently breaks in microgravity? Spoiler alert: it heals itself.<\/p>\n<p>This is what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/925732\">a CRISPR experiment<\/a> that won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/news\/studying-dna-breaks-in-space\">Genes in Space 6<\/a> contest \u2014 SYFY WIRE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/syfy-was-at-the-nasa-ng-16-antares-rocket-launch\">was at the recent launch<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/will-microgravity-mutate-liver-cell-dna-genes-in-space\">Genes in Space 8<\/a> experiment to the ISS \u2014 found out. DNA damage or breakage can mean the potential for degenerative diseases such as cancer, but the fact that it can also self-repair (and in microgravity!) has enormous implications for medical treatments above and below Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If in space, no one can hear you scream, then what happens when DNA silently breaks in microgravity? Spoiler alert: it heals itself. This is what a CRISPR experiment that won the Genes in Space 6 contest \u2014 SYFY WIRE was at the recent launch of the Genes in Space 8 experiment to the ISS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127114","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}