{"id":20501,"date":"2016-01-06T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/gene-editing-treats-disease-in-a-living-animal-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:10:03","slug":"gene-editing-treats-disease-in-a-living-animal-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/gene-editing-treats-disease-in-a-living-animal-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Gene Editing Treats Disease In A Living Animal For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZImVkl8QTW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to treat a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Proof of concept for future human treatment <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While safety is still a concern, the use of gene editing methods to treat disease in adult patients isn\u2019t controversial. Altering embryos is entirely different to treating an adult, predominantly as the implications are profound and an embryo obviously cannot give permission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/1\/5\/gene-editing-treats-disease-in-a-living-animal-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9 to treat a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in mice Proof of concept for future human treatment While safety is still a concern, the use of gene editing methods to treat disease in adult patients isn\u2019t controversial. Altering embryos is entirely different to treating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501","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=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44679,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions\/44679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}