{"id":36100,"date":"2017-04-14T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/a-new-crispr-breakthrough-could-lead-to-simpler-cheaper-disease-diagnosis"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:57","slug":"a-new-crispr-breakthrough-could-lead-to-simpler-cheaper-disease-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/a-new-crispr-breakthrough-could-lead-to-simpler-cheaper-disease-diagnosis","title":{"rendered":"A new CRISPR breakthrough could lead to simpler, cheaper disease diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-crispr-breakthrough-could-lead-to-simpler-cheaper-disease-diagnosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The controversial laboratory tool known as CRISPR may have found a whole new world to conquer. Already the favored method of editing genes, CRISPR could soon become a low-cost diagnostic tool that could be used practically anywhere to determine if someone has an infectious disease such as Zika or dengue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The controversial gene-editing tool may be able to identify infections reliably for pennies in places without electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2017\/04\/13\/a-new-crispr-breakthrough-could-lead-to-simpler-cheaper-disease-diagnosis\/?utm_term=.2e219f5859d7\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2...219f5859d7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial laboratory tool known as CRISPR may have found a whole new world to conquer. Already the favored method of editing genes, CRISPR could soon become a low-cost diagnostic tool that could be used practically anywhere to determine if someone has an infectious disease such as Zika or dengue. The controversial gene-editing tool may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36100","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\/36100","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\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58080,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36100\/revisions\/58080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}