{"id":19207,"date":"2015-11-09T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-bright-future-breakthrough-gene-editing-trial-reverses-leukaemia"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:25:28","slug":"a-bright-future-breakthrough-gene-editing-trial-reverses-leukaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-bright-future-breakthrough-gene-editing-trial-reverses-leukaemia","title":{"rendered":"A Bright Future: Breakthrough Gene Editing Trial Reverses Leukaemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-bright-future-breakthrough-gene-editing-trial-reverses-leukaemia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pioneering gene editing therapy has shown remarkable success in a unique trial at Great Ormond Street, paving the way for a wave of gene editing trials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A world first<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not long ago, 1 year old Layla Richards had an incurable form of leukaemia and the prognosis wasn\u2019t looking good. After a determined search for a cure, Layla underwent an experimental therapy in which \u2018designer\u2019 immune cells were implanted that would destroy and replace her own ailing immune system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/8\/a-bright-future-breakthrough-gene-editing-trial-reverses-leukaemia\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering gene editing therapy has shown remarkable success in a unique trial at Great Ormond Street, paving the way for a wave of gene editing trials. A world first Not long ago, 1 year old Layla Richards had an incurable form of leukaemia and the prognosis wasn\u2019t looking good. After a determined search for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63741,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19207\/revisions\/63741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}