{"id":159811,"date":"2023-03-08T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/sickle-cell-disease-is-now-curable-but-the-treatment-is-unaffordable"},"modified":"2023-03-08T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:28:08","slug":"sickle-cell-disease-is-now-curable-but-the-treatment-is-unaffordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/sickle-cell-disease-is-now-curable-but-the-treatment-is-unaffordable","title":{"rendered":"Sickle cell disease is now curable, but the treatment is unaffordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sickle-cell-disease-is-now-curable-but-the-treatment-is-unaffordable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR gene editing has made it possible to cure sickle cell disease, which affects millions worldwide, but most people with the condition won\u2019t be able to afford the cost of the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/michael-le-page\/\" class=\"\">Michael Le Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR gene editing has made it possible to cure sickle cell disease, which affects millions worldwide, but most people with the condition won\u2019t be able to afford the cost of the treatment. By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159811","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\/159811","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}