{"id":21056,"date":"2016-01-21T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/crisprcas9-genome-editing-is-a-huge-deal-but-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:04:40","slug":"crisprcas9-genome-editing-is-a-huge-deal-but-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/crisprcas9-genome-editing-is-a-huge-deal-but-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR\/Cas9 Genome Editing Is a Huge Deal, But It\u2019s Just the Tip of the Iceberg"},"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\/2pp17E4E-O8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CRISPR\/Cas9 has been touted as an almost magical technology in the news\u2014and rightly so. The technique allows scientists to alter the DNA of living cells and, it\u2019s hoped, achieve a longstanding goal of science to treat disease at the genetic level.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a really big deal.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 6,000 diseases are caused by genetic mutations, and only 5% can be treated. Take sickle-cell anemia, for example. Often deadly, it is caused by a single mutation in one of the human body\u2019s three billion DNA base pairs. It\u2019s a small, well-understood error in the genetic code, but so far we have been helpless to repair it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/01\/21\/crisprcas9-genome-editing-is-a-huge-deal-but-its-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/#.VqFAOFT4GQg.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRISPR\/Cas9 has been touted as an almost magical technology in the news\u2014and rightly so. The technique allows scientists to alter the DNA of living cells and, it\u2019s hoped, achieve a longstanding goal of science to treat disease at the genetic level. That\u2019s a really big deal. An estimated 6,000 diseases are caused by genetic mutations, [\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-21056","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\/21056","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=21056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63168,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions\/63168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}