{"id":186015,"date":"2024-03-26T00:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/epigenetic-editing-explodes-on-the-heels-of-gene-editing-success"},"modified":"2024-03-26T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:28:56","slug":"epigenetic-editing-explodes-on-the-heels-of-gene-editing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/epigenetic-editing-explodes-on-the-heels-of-gene-editing-success","title":{"rendered":"Epigenetic Editing Explodes on the Heels of Gene Editing Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epigenetic-editing-explodes-on-the-heels-of-gene-editing-success.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ubiquitous Potential<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While many gene-editing therapies are focused on fatal genetic diseases, epigenetic editing\u2019s safety profile may enable the treatment of more common diseases. The fact that no underlying changes are made to the DNA sequence \u201coffers some additional safety assurances for this approach compared to some others where the risk\/benefit [ratio] needs to be maybe a little different before you would employ those technologies,\u201d Kane told <em>BioSpace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, because most common diseases are not driven by genetic mutations, epigenetic editing may be a better fit. \u201cMost of those diseases are driven from expression levels being at an unhealthy level,\u201d Kane said. \u201cThat is something that a tool like epi[genetic] editing is uniquely well-suited to address.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubiquitous Potential While many gene-editing therapies are focused on fatal genetic diseases, epigenetic editing\u2019s safety profile may enable the treatment of more common diseases. The fact that no underlying changes are made to the DNA sequence \u201coffers some additional safety assurances for this approach compared to some others where the risk\/benefit [ratio] needs to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186015","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\/186015","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}