{"id":131261,"date":"2021-11-25T23:26:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-research-suggests-crispr-can-destroy-virus-that-causes-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-11-25T23:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:26:54","slug":"new-research-suggests-crispr-can-destroy-virus-that-causes-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-research-suggests-crispr-can-destroy-virus-that-causes-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"New research suggests CRISPR can destroy virus that causes COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-suggests-crispr-can-destroy-virus-that-causes-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a way to stop the COVID-19 virus from replicating in infected human cells, marking major progress towards a definitive treatment for the deadly illness and accentuating the potential of genetic engineering to cure viral diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-24577-9.pdf\">study<\/a> explores the use of CRISPR, a genome editing tool, and builds on research that started at Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petermac.org\">Peter MacCallum Cancer Center<\/a> in 2019, when Dr. Mohamed Fareh and Prof. Joe Trapani showed that CRISPR could be used to eliminate abnormal RNAs that drive children\u2019s cancers.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the pandemic, and in collaboration with Director Prof. Sharon Lewin and Dr. Wei Zhao from the Doherty Institute, the scientists reprogrammed the same CRISPR tool to suppress replication of the RNA virus SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 and importantly, its \u201cvariants of concern\u201d \u2014 in a test tube model. SARS-CoV-2, which is short for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, is the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a way to stop the COVID-19 virus from replicating in infected human cells, marking major progress towards a definitive treatment for the deadly illness and accentuating the potential of genetic engineering to cure viral diseases. The study explores the use of CRISPR, a genome editing tool, and builds on research that started [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131261","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\/131261","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}