{"id":127603,"date":"2021-09-13T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-clever-gene-silencing-injection-has-been-approved-for-treating-high-cholesterol"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:22:37","slug":"a-clever-gene-silencing-injection-has-been-approved-for-treating-high-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-clever-gene-silencing-injection-has-been-approved-for-treating-high-cholesterol","title":{"rendered":"A Clever \u2018Gene Silencing\u2019 Injection Has Been Approved For Treating High Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-clever-gene-silencing-injection-has-been-approved-for-treating-high-cholesterol2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an emerging therapeutic technique that works by targeting the underlying causes of a disease, rather than the symptoms it causes. It does this by targeting a particular gene, and preventing it from making the protein that it produces.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s NHS has very recently approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/2021\/09\/nhs-cholesterol-busting-jab-to-save-thousands-of-lives\/\">new cholesterol-lowering jab<\/a> which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/368\/bmj.m139\">The drug<\/a> \u2013 inclisiran \u2013 will be administered twice a year as an injection.<\/p>\n<p>It will mainly be prescribed to patients who suffer with a genetic condition that leads to high cholesterol, those who have already suffered a heart attack or stroke, or those who haven\u2019t responded well to other cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as statins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an emerging therapeutic technique that works by targeting the underlying causes of a disease, rather than the symptoms it causes. It does this by targeting a particular gene, and preventing it from making the protein that it produces. The United Kingdom\u2019s NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127603","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\/127603","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=127603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}