{"id":155864,"date":"2023-01-20T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-nanoparticles-deliver-therapy-brain-wide-and-edit-alzheimers-gene"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:23:25","slug":"new-nanoparticles-deliver-therapy-brain-wide-and-edit-alzheimers-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-nanoparticles-deliver-therapy-brain-wide-and-edit-alzheimers-gene","title":{"rendered":"New Nanoparticles Deliver Therapy Brain-Wide and Edit Alzheimer\u2019s Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nanoparticles-deliver-therapy-brain-wide-and-edit-alzheimers-gene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers have developed a new family of nano-scale capsules capable of carrying CRISPR gene editing tools to different organs of the body before harmlessly dissolving. The capsules were able to enter the brains of mice and successfully edit a gene associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Gene therapies have the potential to treat neurological disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s diseases, but they face a common barrier \u2014 the blood-brain barrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have developed a new family of nano-scale capsules capable of carrying CRISPR gene editing tools to different organs of the body before harmlessly dissolving. The capsules were able to enter the brains of mice and successfully edit a gene associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gene therapies have the potential to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155864","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}