{"id":28231,"date":"2016-07-24T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T03:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/crispr-against-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:15","slug":"crispr-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/crispr-against-cancer","title":{"rendered":"CRISPR against cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crispr-against-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope; or at least I am hoping.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A novel gene-editing technique with potential to revolutionize cancer treatment has scientists in a race to test it on humans.<\/p>\n<p>As the scientific journal Nature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/chinese-scientists-to-pioneer-first-human-crispr-trial-1.20302?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews\">announced<\/a> last week: \u201cChinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But wait. On the same page, there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/first-crispr-clinical-trial-gets-green-light-from-us-panel-1.20137\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to another story from a month ago: \u201cFirst CRISPR clinical trial gets green light from U.S. panel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/crispr-cancer-immunotherapy-gene-therapy-1.3691689\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/crispr-cancer-immunotherapy-gene-therapy-1.3691689<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope; or at least I am hoping. A novel gene-editing technique with potential to revolutionize cancer treatment has scientists in a race to test it on humans. As the scientific journal Nature announced last week: \u201cChinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial.\u201d But wait. On the same page, there\u2019s a link to another story [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28231","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\/28231","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=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66802,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions\/66802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}