{"id":142925,"date":"2022-07-26T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/curing-debilitating-genetic-diseases-soft-crispr-may-offer-a-new-fix-for-genetic-defects"},"modified":"2022-07-26T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T03:04:21","slug":"curing-debilitating-genetic-diseases-soft-crispr-may-offer-a-new-fix-for-genetic-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/curing-debilitating-genetic-diseases-soft-crispr-may-offer-a-new-fix-for-genetic-defects","title":{"rendered":"Curing Debilitating Genetic Diseases: \u201cSoft\u201d CRISPR May Offer a New Fix for Genetic Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curing-debilitating-genetic-diseases-soft-crispr-may-offer-a-new-fix-for-genetic-defects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Targeted repairs with \u2018nicks\u2019 of single DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Targeted repairs with \u2018nicks\u2019 of single DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142925","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\/142925","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}