{"id":27112,"date":"2016-06-22T19:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-green-light-to-use-gene-editing-on-humans"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:12","slug":"a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-green-light-to-use-gene-editing-on-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-green-light-to-use-gene-editing-on-humans","title":{"rendered":"A federal panel just gave the green light to use gene editing on humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-green-light-to-use-gene-editing-on-humans.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are one step closer to using CRISPR gene editing on humans, with a US federal advisory panel approving the use of the technique for a study led by the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists are seeking to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-removed-hiv-dna-from-human-immune-cells-using-new-gene-editing-technique\">CRISPR-Cas9<\/a> technique to create genetically altered <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T_cell\">T cells<\/a> \u2013 white blood cells that play an important role in our immune system \u2013 that are more effective at fighting cancer cells in patients with melanoma, multiple myeloma, and sarcoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur preliminary data suggests that we could improve the efficacy of these T cells if we use CRISPR,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/21\/crispr-human-trials\/\">lead researcher Carl June told<\/a> the National Institute of Health\u2019s (NIH) Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-green-light-to-use-gene-editing-on-humans\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-federal-panel-just-gave-the-gr...-on-humans<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are one step closer to using CRISPR gene editing on humans, with a US federal advisory panel approving the use of the technique for a study led by the University of Pennsylvania. The scientists are seeking to use the CRISPR-Cas9 technique to create genetically altered T cells \u2013 white blood cells that play an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112","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=27112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67126,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions\/67126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}