{"id":31964,"date":"2016-11-16T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/dna-editing-breakthrough-could-fix-broken-genes-in-the-brain-delay-ageing-and-cure-incurable-diseases"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:13:24","slug":"dna-editing-breakthrough-could-fix-broken-genes-in-the-brain-delay-ageing-and-cure-incurable-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/dna-editing-breakthrough-could-fix-broken-genes-in-the-brain-delay-ageing-and-cure-incurable-diseases","title":{"rendered":"DNA-editing breakthrough could fix \u2018broken genes\u2019 in the brain, delay ageing and cure incurable diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-editing-breakthrough-could-fix-broken-genes-in-the-brain-delay-ageing-and-cure-incurable-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new way to edit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dna\">DNA<\/a> that could fix \u201cbroken genes\u201d in the brain, cure previously incurable diseases and potentially even extend the human lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough \u2013 described as a \u201choly grail\u201d of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Genetics\">genetics<\/a> \u2013 was used to partially restore the sight of rats blinded by a condition which also affects humans.<\/p>\n<p>Previously researchers were not able to make changes to DNA in eye, brain, heart and liver tissues.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/gene-editing-breakthrough-fix-broken-genes-delay-ageing-cure-incurable-diseases-a7421596.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/gene-editing-break...21596.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new way to edit DNA that could fix \u201cbroken genes\u201d in the brain, cure previously incurable diseases and potentially even extend the human lifespan. The breakthrough \u2013 described as a \u201choly grail\u201d of genetics \u2013 was used to partially restore the sight of rats blinded by a condition which also affects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59748,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions\/59748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}