{"id":200097,"date":"2024-11-24T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/rna-editing-is-the-next-frontier-in-gene-therapy-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2"},"modified":"2024-11-24T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:22:34","slug":"rna-editing-is-the-next-frontier-in-gene-therapy-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/rna-editing-is-the-next-frontier-in-gene-therapy-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2","title":{"rendered":"RNA editing is the next frontier in gene therapy\u2014here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rna-editing-is-the-next-frontier-in-gene-therapy-heres-what-you-need-to-know4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huidagene.com\/new\/news\/70\" target=\"_blank\">has just approved<\/a> the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim is to treat an eye disease called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/wet-macular-degeneration\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20351107\" target=\"_blank\">wet age-related macular degeneration<\/a> that causes vision loss in millions of older people worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>This trial marks a new frontier in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/gene+therapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gene therapy <\/a>\u2014the process of treating or curing medical conditions by changing a person\u2019s genes.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it special is the fact the therapy targets RNA, instead of DNA. So, what does that mean, and why should we be excited?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim is to treat an eye disease called wet age-related macular degeneration that causes vision loss in millions of older people worldwide. This trial marks a new frontier in gene therapy \u2014the process of treating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200097","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=200097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}