{"id":183098,"date":"2024-02-19T19:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/crispr-will-provide-cures-for-genetic-diseases-that-were-incurable-before-says-renowned-biochemist-virginijus-siksnys"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T01:26:33","slug":"crispr-will-provide-cures-for-genetic-diseases-that-were-incurable-before-says-renowned-biochemist-virginijus-siksnys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/crispr-will-provide-cures-for-genetic-diseases-that-were-incurable-before-says-renowned-biochemist-virginijus-siksnys","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR \u2018will provide cures for genetic diseases that were incurable before,\u2019 says renowned biochemist Virginijus \u0160ik\u0161nys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-will-provide-cures-for-genetic-diseases-that-were-incurable-before-says-renowned-biochemist-virginijus-siksnys2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live Science spoke with \u0160ik\u0161nys about what it\u2019s been like to see CRISPR enter clinical use and how he thinks the system might be applied and improved upon in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related: Gene therapy: What is it and how does it work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science spoke with \u0160ik\u0161nys about what it\u2019s been like to see CRISPR enter clinical use and how he thinks the system might be applied and improved upon in the future. Editor\u2019s Note: This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Related: Gene therapy: What is it and how does it work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183098","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\/183098","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}