{"id":26476,"date":"2016-06-05T05:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/we-can-now-cut-and-paste-rna-in-addition-to-dna-and-it-could-disable-viruses"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:48","slug":"we-can-now-cut-and-paste-rna-in-addition-to-dna-and-it-could-disable-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/we-can-now-cut-and-paste-rna-in-addition-to-dna-and-it-could-disable-viruses","title":{"rendered":"We can now \u2018cut and paste\u2019 RNA in addition to DNA, and it could disable viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-can-now-cut-and-paste-rna-in-addition-to-dna-and-it-could-disable-viruses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CRISPR\">CRISPR<\/a> \u2014 the gene editing tool that essentially lets scientists cut and paste DNA, removing things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-removed-hiv-dna-from-human-immune-cells-using-new-gene-editing-technique\">HIV<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/crispr-gene-editing-tool-used-to-treat-genetic-disease-in-an-animal-for-the-first-time\">muscular dystrophy<\/a> from our cells \u2014 and now scientists have discovered a way to edit RNA with just as much precision.<\/p>\n<p>RNA is DNA\u2019s close biological cousin, responsible for translating messages from the nucleus to the rest of the cell, and being able to change it could open up all-new disease-fighting possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Just like CRISPR\/Cas9 editing, the new procedure selectively cuts up RNA, which gives us microscopic control over genetic information, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/new-crispr-system-targeting-rna-0602\">researchers behind it say<\/a> it could open up the method could be used to block viruses and halt disease in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-rna-editing-tool-could-disable-viruses-and-halt-disease\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-rna-editing-tool-could-dis...lt-disease<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably heard of CRISPR \u2014 the gene editing tool that essentially lets scientists cut and paste DNA, removing things like HIV and muscular dystrophy from our cells \u2014 and now scientists have discovered a way to edit RNA with just as much precision. RNA is DNA\u2019s close biological cousin, responsible for translating messages from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476","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=26476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26476\/revisions\/67326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}