{"id":212373,"date":"2025-04-24T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blind-children-see-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-revolutionary-gene-therapy"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:14:07","slug":"blind-children-see-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-revolutionary-gene-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/blind-children-see-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-revolutionary-gene-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Blind Children See for the First Time Thanks to a Revolutionary Gene Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blind-children-see-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-revolutionary-gene-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking gene therapy has restored sight in four young children born with severe blindness due to a rare genetic deficiency. Scientists at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital successfully injected healthy copies of the defective gene into the retina, leading to life-changing improvements. Gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking gene therapy has restored sight in four young children born with severe blindness due to a rare genetic deficiency. Scientists at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital successfully injected healthy copies of the defective gene into the retina, leading to life-changing improvements. Gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212373","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\/212373","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}