{"id":175961,"date":"2023-11-13T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-tackles-parkinsons-at-its-source-promising-results-in-primates"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:24:57","slug":"revolutionary-gene-therapy-tackles-parkinsons-at-its-source-promising-results-in-primates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-tackles-parkinsons-at-its-source-promising-results-in-primates","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Gene Therapy Tackles Parkinson\u2019s at Its Source: Promising Results in Primates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionary-gene-therapy-tackles-parkinsons-at-its-source-promising-results-in-primates3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) within the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/chinese-academy-of-sciences\/\">Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)<\/a>, along with their partners, have designed a targeted gene therapy approach to mitigate the primary motor symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s disease in both rodents and nonhuman primates.<\/p>\n<p>The study was recently published in the journal <em>Cell<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s disease, characterized by the loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly population, affecting more than 6 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) within the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with their partners, have designed a targeted gene therapy approach to mitigate the primary motor symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s disease in both rodents and nonhuman primates. The study was recently published in the journal Cell. Parkinson\u2019s disease, characterized by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175961","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\/175961","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}