{"id":165267,"date":"2023-06-06T23:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/revolutionary-gene-editing-therapy-treats-girls-incurable-cancer"},"modified":"2023-06-06T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:22:42","slug":"revolutionary-gene-editing-therapy-treats-girls-incurable-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/revolutionary-gene-editing-therapy-treats-girls-incurable-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary gene-editing therapy treats girl\u2019s \u201cincurable\u201d cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AIaBgmzMYzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A U.K. teen with an aggressive form of leukemia is now cancer-free, thanks to a new gene-editing therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The particular therapy used on the patient was only invented six years ago, and it\u2019s now making doctors rethink the way doctors approach the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Drolet reports on how the revolutionary technology works, and the possibilities it offers to change the lives of those with types of cancer long-thought to be incurable.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9086170\/sean-thomas-legacy-toy-drive-bc\/\">https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9086170\/sean-thomas-legacy-toy-drive-bc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Global News on Facebook HERE: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/255GMJQ\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/255GMJQ<\/a><br \/> Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Toz8mt\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Toz8mt<\/a>.<br \/> Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2QZaZIB\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2QZaZIB<\/a><br \/> #GlobalNews #Leukemia #Cancer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.K. teen with an aggressive form of leukemia is now cancer-free, thanks to a new gene-editing therapy. The particular therapy used on the patient was only invented six years ago, and it\u2019s now making doctors rethink the way doctors approach the disease. Mike Drolet reports on how the revolutionary technology works, and the possibilities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165267","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\/165267","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=165267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}