{"id":19686,"date":"2015-11-29T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-show-that-gene-editing-can-turn-off-human-diseases"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:34","slug":"scientists-show-that-gene-editing-can-turn-off-human-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/scientists-show-that-gene-editing-can-turn-off-human-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Scientists show that gene editing can \u2018turn off\u2019 human diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-show-that-gene-editing-can-turn-off-human-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene editing has already been used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/06\/gene-therapy-cancer\/\">fight diseases<\/a>, but there\u2019s now hope that it might eliminate the diseases altgether. Researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/mt\/journal\/vaop\/naam\/abs\/mt2015200a.html\">have shown<\/a> that it\u2019s possible to eliminate facial muscular dystrophy using a newer editing technique, CRISPR (Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to replace the offending gene and \u2018turn off\u2019 the condition. The approach sends a mix of protein and RNA to bind to a gene and give it an overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean that doctors suddenly have a cure-all on their hands. They haven\u2019t tried CRISPR on real live people, and there\u2019s no guarantee that it\u2019d work with every genetic condition under the Sun. The initial test was only 50 percent effective, too. If this gene mending is useful in the field, though, it could do a lot to transform medicine. Doctors could treat the root cause of a genetic disease rather than deal with the symptoms, and possibly wipe it out entirely \u2014 or at least, make it more bearable.<\/p>\n<p>[Image credit: Getty Images].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/29\/gene-editing-to-fix-human-diseases\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene editing has already been used to fight diseases, but there\u2019s now hope that it might eliminate the diseases altgether. Researchers have shown that it\u2019s possible to eliminate facial muscular dystrophy using a newer editing technique, CRISPR (Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to replace the offending gene and \u2018turn off\u2019 the condition. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19686","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\/19686","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69100,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions\/69100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}