{"id":31348,"date":"2016-10-24T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:33","slug":"newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives","title":{"rendered":"Newly-developed \u2018gene therapy in a box\u2019 could save millions of lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene therapy in a box could reduce costs and save lives.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives2.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-1\" width=\"630\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/unnamed-1-630x343.jpg 630w, http:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/unnamed-1-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/unnamed-1-200x109.jpg 200w, http:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/unnamed-1-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-in-a-box-could-save-millions-of-lives.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px)  100vw, 630px\">Gene therapy \u2014 the process of genetically altering cells to treat disease \u2014 is a highly promising process being studied as a way to cure devastating conditions like genetic disorders, HIV, and even cancer.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the great need for medical advances in these areas, gene therapy can only be performed at a handful of high-tech clinics around the world and require highly trained staff, meaning that it may never be accessible to the millions of people whose lives it could save.<\/p>\n<p>Enter \u201cgene therapy in a box,\u201d a table-top device developed at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center in Seattle, which could provide gene therapy treatments without the expensive and rare medical infrastructure currently needed. My hope is that this technology\u2026 could open the door to saving millions of lives.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-box-save-millions-lives\/\">http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/newly-developed-gene-therapy-bo...ons-lives\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene therapy in a box could reduce costs and save lives. Gene therapy \u2014 the process of genetically altering cells to treat disease \u2014 is a highly promising process being studied as a way to cure devastating conditions like genetic disorders, HIV, and even cancer. But despite the great need for medical advances in these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31348","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\/31348","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65932,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348\/revisions\/65932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}