{"id":199360,"date":"2024-11-13T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T06:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/crispr-gene-therapy-improves-vision-in-people-with-inherited-blindness"},"modified":"2024-11-13T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T06:24:18","slug":"crispr-gene-therapy-improves-vision-in-people-with-inherited-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/crispr-gene-therapy-improves-vision-in-people-with-inherited-blindness","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR gene therapy improves vision in people with inherited blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-gene-therapy-improves-vision-in-people-with-inherited-blindness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Principal investigator Eric Pierce pointed out that the trial shows that gene therapy for hereditary vision loss is a worthy pursuit for future research. He believes the early research is promising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to hear how thrilled they were to finally be able to see food on their plates,\u201d said Pierce. \u201cThese were individuals who couldn\u2019t read a single line on an eye chart. They had no treatment options, which is an unfortunate reality for most people with inherited retinal disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to inject CRISPR so that it reaches the retina to restore the ability to produce genes and proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal investigator Eric Pierce pointed out that the trial shows that gene therapy for hereditary vision loss is a worthy pursuit for future research. He believes the early research is promising. \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to hear how thrilled they were to finally be able to see food on their plates,\u201d said Pierce. \u201cThese were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199360","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=199360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}