{"id":20677,"date":"2016-01-12T11:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/more-than-just-editing-crispr-could-control-your-genes-too"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:09:22","slug":"more-than-just-editing-crispr-could-control-your-genes-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/more-than-just-editing-crispr-could-control-your-genes-too","title":{"rendered":"More Than Just Editing: CRISPR Could Control Your Genes Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-just-editing-crispr-could-control-your-genes-too.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR, CRISPR, CRISPR. We\u2019ve all heard about it\u2019s gene editing capability, but it has potential to do so much more \u2014 controlling genes and offering a precise delivery system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More than an editing platform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CRISPR-Cas9 system does a wonderful job, partly because it targets genes so specifically. It\u2019s not the only system that does this, but it\u2019s the cheapest and easiest to create so far. For those with imagination however, this targeting quality means it could do so much more than simply snip away at sequences. Targeting promoter sequences, delivering a payload to a specific region of DNA\u2026the platform has enormous potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2016\/1\/9\/more-than-just-editing-crispr-could-control-your-genes-too\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR, CRISPR, CRISPR. We\u2019ve all heard about it\u2019s gene editing capability, but it has potential to do so much more \u2014 controlling genes and offering a precise delivery system. More than an editing platform The CRISPR-Cas9 system does a wonderful job, partly because it targets genes so specifically. It\u2019s not the only system that does [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63287,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions\/63287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}