{"id":142120,"date":"2022-07-13T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/verve-starts-first-human-test-of-gene-editing-treatment-for-heart-disease"},"modified":"2022-07-13T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T07:22:18","slug":"verve-starts-first-human-test-of-gene-editing-treatment-for-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/verve-starts-first-human-test-of-gene-editing-treatment-for-heart-disease","title":{"rendered":"Verve starts first human test of gene editing treatment for heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/verve-starts-first-human-test-of-gene-editing-treatment-for-heart-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A patient in New Zealand became the first person to receive the biotech\u2019s medicine, which uses base editing to turn off a specific gene in the liver and thereby lower cholesterol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient in New Zealand became the first person to receive the biotech\u2019s medicine, which uses base editing to turn off a specific gene in the liver and thereby lower cholesterol.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142120","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=142120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}