{"id":149514,"date":"2022-11-05T10:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/death-in-crispr-gene-therapy-study-sparks-search-for-answers"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T15:25:37","slug":"death-in-crispr-gene-therapy-study-sparks-search-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/death-in-crispr-gene-therapy-study-sparks-search-for-answers","title":{"rendered":"Death In CRISPR Gene Therapy Study Sparks Search For Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/death-in-crispr-gene-therapy-study-sparks-search-for-answers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now trying to figure out what killed him.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Horgan, a 27-year-old who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died last month, according to Cure Rare Disease, a Connecticut-based nonprofit founded by his brother, Rich, to try and save him from the fatal condition.<\/p>\n<p>Although little is known about how he died, his death occurred during one of the first studies to test a gene editing treatment built for one person. It\u2019s raising questions about the overall prospect of such therapies, which have buoyed hopes among many families facing rare and devastating diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lone volunteer in a unique study involving a gene-editing technique has died, and those behind the trial are now trying to figure out what killed him. Terry Horgan, a 27-year-old who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died last month, according to Cure Rare Disease, a Connecticut-based nonprofit founded by his brother, Rich, to try and [\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-149514","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\/149514","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=149514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}