{"id":165071,"date":"2023-06-03T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/engineering-the-bacteriophage-t4-to-serve-as-a-vector-for-molecular-repair"},"modified":"2023-06-03T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:22:28","slug":"engineering-the-bacteriophage-t4-to-serve-as-a-vector-for-molecular-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/engineering-the-bacteriophage-t4-to-serve-as-a-vector-for-molecular-repair","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the bacteriophage T4 to serve as a vector for molecular repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-the-bacteriophage-t4-to-serve-as-a-vector-for-molecular-repair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of medical scientists at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., working with a colleague from Purdue University, has developed a way to engineer the bacteriophage T4 to serve as a vector for molecular repair. The study is reported in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Prior research has shown that many human ailments arise due to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+mutations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic mutations<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cystic+fibrosis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cystic fibrosis<\/a>, Down syndrome, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sickle+cell+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sickle cell disease<\/a> and hemophilia are just a few. Logic suggests that correcting such genetic mutations could cure these diseases. So researchers have been working toward developing gene editing tools that will allow for safe editing of genes.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most promising is the CRISPR gene editing system. In this new effort, the research team took a more general approach to solving the problem by working to develop a vector that could be used to carry different kinds of tools to targeted cells and then enter them to allow for healing work to commence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of medical scientists at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., working with a colleague from Purdue University, has developed a way to engineer the bacteriophage T4 to serve as a vector for molecular repair. The study is reported in the journal Nature Communications. Prior research has shown that many human ailments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165071","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\/165071","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}