{"id":127900,"date":"2021-09-20T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/eight-diseases-that-crispr-technology-could-cure"},"modified":"2021-09-20T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:22:19","slug":"eight-diseases-that-crispr-technology-could-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/eight-diseases-that-crispr-technology-could-cure","title":{"rendered":"Eight Diseases That CRISPR Technology Could Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eight-diseases-that-crispr-technology-could-cure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>CRISPR technology offers the promise to cure any human genetic disease with gene editing; which one will be the first?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR-Cas9 was first used as a gene-editing tool in 2012. In just a few years, the technology has exploded in popularity thanks to its promise of making gene editing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiotech.eu\/in-depth\/crispr-cas9-review-gene-editing-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much faster, cheaper, and easier<\/a> than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>CRISPR is short for \u2018clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.\u2019 The term makes reference to a series of repetitive patterns found in the DNA of bacteria that form the basis of a primitive immune system, defending them from viral invaders by cutting their DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR technology offers the promise to cure any human genetic disease with gene editing; which one will be the first? CRISPR-Cas9 was first used as a gene-editing tool in 2012. In just a few years, the technology has exploded in popularity thanks to its promise of making gene editing much faster, cheaper, and easier than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127900","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\/127900","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=127900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}