{"id":133445,"date":"2022-01-01T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/first-sickle-cell-patient-treated-with-crispr-gene-editing-still-thriving"},"modified":"2022-01-01T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T21:22:37","slug":"first-sickle-cell-patient-treated-with-crispr-gene-editing-still-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/first-sickle-cell-patient-treated-with-crispr-gene-editing-still-thriving","title":{"rendered":"First sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR gene-editing still thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-sickle-cell-patient-treated-with-crispr-gene-editing-still-thriving.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than fine, actually. Much more, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is major for me and my family,\u201d she says. \u201cTwo years without me being in the hospital? Wow. We just can\u2019t believe it. But we\u2019re so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s doing so well for so long that she\u2019s officially no longer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/ct2\/show\/NCT03745287?term=crispr&cond=sickle+cell&draw=2&rank=3\">landmark study<\/a> she volunteered for. That involved doctors taking cells out of her bone marrow, and editing a gene in the cells in their lab, using the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/773368439\/the-crispr-revolution\">CRISPR<\/a>. CRISPR allows scientists to make very precise changes in DNA much more easily than ever before. Many think it will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/773368439\/the-crispr-revolution\">revolutionize medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than fine, actually. Much more, she says. \u201cThis is major for me and my family,\u201d she says. \u201cTwo years without me being in the hospital? Wow. We just can\u2019t believe it. But we\u2019re so grateful.\u201d She\u2019s doing so well for so long that she\u2019s officially no longer in the landmark study she volunteered for. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133445","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\/133445","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}