{"id":215704,"date":"2025-06-10T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-edited-genes-inside-a-living-person-for-the-first-time-and-saved-his-life"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:06:57","slug":"scientists-edited-genes-inside-a-living-person-for-the-first-time-and-saved-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-edited-genes-inside-a-living-person-for-the-first-time-and-saved-his-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Edited Genes Inside a Living Person for the First Time\u2014and Saved His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-edited-genes-inside-a-living-person-for-the-first-time-and-saved-his-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked tirelessly to develop the world\u2019s first custom gene-editing therapy to save the life of a newborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked tirelessly to develop the world\u2019s first custom gene-editing therapy to save the life of a newborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215704","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\/215704","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}