{"id":169871,"date":"2023-08-17T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-gene-therapy-dramatically-reduces-booze-consumption-in-alcoholic-monkeys"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:22:25","slug":"new-gene-therapy-dramatically-reduces-booze-consumption-in-alcoholic-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-gene-therapy-dramatically-reduces-booze-consumption-in-alcoholic-monkeys","title":{"rendered":"New Gene Therapy Dramatically Reduces Booze Consumption in Alcoholic Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gene-therapy-dramatically-reduces-booze-consumption-in-alcoholic-monkeys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists took a bunch of macaque monkeys, made them into alcoholics, and then successfully weaned them off the sauce after injecting their brains with a special gene \u2014 an experiment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-023-02463-9.epdf?sharing_token=USi_xetSPoPKTAY89Mocc9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MXXjqJAddFqQoVsYfpAwRTgdwXv_aGcNBeq9DTL7PR5sTZMN5pa2VCT8qsqR3iLaKhEM4ZcFfIUmssH-OPUkusiFFNoio63MH0iWK4lrAQg7LZN9mGMDmspEouA8shXFenbNHv-mW_B0bruxYSa3Yc3jH4sEtX88FUfVLnWAB1IvbfVKtN3ENBmjDVU1-ig85pjkDfP9LzWiYvgmjqkfutl5nFXEQpjS50a91aLATlPA511AafzVoTkeUETTE9AYQ1BG_u6fjHiRkgazZv0SolVbjevGaC_9lPElN5_Dz4Oncs-9xK5y3IPKfPAcu3npI%3D&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com\" class=\"\">detailed in a new paper published in <em>Nature Medicine<\/em><\/a>, that could potentially provide a compelling new treatment for addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrinking went down to almost zero,\u201d Oregon Health and Science University professor and co-author Kathleen Grant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/14\/form-of-gene-therapy-offers-hope-for-severe-alcohol-addiction-study-finds\" class=\"\">told <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>. \u201cFor months on end, these animals would choose to drink water and just avoid drinking alcohol altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers set out with the premise that continued alcohol use causes changes to neurons and hampers the dopamine \u201creward circuitry\u201d in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists took a bunch of macaque monkeys, made them into alcoholics, and then successfully weaned them off the sauce after injecting their brains with a special gene \u2014 an experiment, detailed in a new paper published in Nature Medicine, that could potentially provide a compelling new treatment for addiction. \u201cDrinking went down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169871","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}