{"id":27120,"date":"2016-06-22T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/approved-first-ever-human-trials-involving-crispr-gene-editing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:08","slug":"approved-first-ever-human-trials-involving-crispr-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/approved-first-ever-human-trials-involving-crispr-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"Approved: First Ever Human Trials Involving CRISPR Gene Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/approved-first-ever-human-trials-involving-crispr-gene-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excellent!!! Cannot wait until we eradicate cancer, MS, Parkinson, Dystonia, Cystic-Fibrosis, LGD, etc.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of Physicians at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Medicine now has their project of modifying the immune cells of 18 different cancer patients with the CRISPR-Cas9 system approved by the National Institute of Health.<\/p>\n<p>CRISPR is the gift that keeps on giving\u2014when it\u2019s not <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/crispr-used-to-repair-blindness-causing-genetic-defect-in-patient-derived-stem-cells\/\">fighting blindness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-removed-hiv-human-immune-cells-using-crispr-gene-editing\/\">tackling HIV<\/a>, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-may-have-found-a-way-to-use-crispr-as-a-recording-device\/\">recording real-time immune responses<\/a>, it is taking on the emperor of all maladies: <em>cancer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s even more fascinating about this use of CRISPR is that the National Institute of Health\u2019s (NIH) Recombinant DNA Research Advisory Committee (RAC) has approved the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/first-crispr-clinical-trial-gets-green-light-from-us-panel-1.20137?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\" target=\"_blank\">first-ever<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/first-crispr-clinical-trial-gets-green-light-from-us-panel-1.20137?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\" target=\"_blank\">use of CRISPR in human cancer therapy<\/a>, a monumental step in the history of <i>the <\/i>gene-editing technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/approved-first-ever-human-trials-involving-crispr-gene-editing-in-fight-against-cancer\/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=First+Human+Trials+Using+Gene+Editing+%25257C+An+All-Electric+Plane+%25257C+Breathing+Walls&utm_campaign=Futurism+Daily+Newsletter+-+06+22+16\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/approved-first-ever-human-trials-involvi...-+06+22+16<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent!!! Cannot wait until we eradicate cancer, MS, Parkinson, Dystonia, Cystic-Fibrosis, LGD, etc. A team of Physicians at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Medicine now has their project of modifying the immune cells of 18 different cancer patients with the CRISPR-Cas9 system approved by the National Institute of Health. CRISPR is the gift that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"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-27120","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\/27120","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67118,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27120\/revisions\/67118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}