{"id":25170,"date":"2016-04-28T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T05:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/gene-therapy-reverses-sight-loss-and-is-long-lasting"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:09:31","slug":"gene-therapy-reverses-sight-loss-and-is-long-lasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/gene-therapy-reverses-sight-loss-and-is-long-lasting","title":{"rendered":"Gene therapy reverses sight loss and is long-lasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-therapy-reverses-sight-loss-and-is-long-lasting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind.<\/p>\n<p>A clinical study by British scientists has shown that the improvement is long-lasting and so the therapy is suitable to be offered as a treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will apply for approval to begin trials to treat more common forms of blindness next year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36101786\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36101786<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genetic therapy has improved the vision of patients who would otherwise have gone blind. A clinical study by British scientists has shown that the improvement is long-lasting and so the therapy is suitable to be offered as a treatment. The researchers will apply for approval to begin trials to treat more common forms of [\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-25170","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\/25170","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=25170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50664,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25170\/revisions\/50664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}