{"id":72953,"date":"2017-09-30T16:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-remove-a-fatal-blood-disorder-from-human-embryos"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:12:21","slug":"scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-remove-a-fatal-blood-disorder-from-human-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-remove-a-fatal-blood-disorder-from-human-embryos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Used Gene Editing to Remove a Fatal Blood Disorder From Human Embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-remove-a-fatal-blood-disorder-from-human-embryos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Sun Yat-sen University have used gene editing to correct a potentially fatal blood condition. This world-first accomplishment represents the first step to a future where we literally edit disease out of our bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/Thalassaemia\/Pages\/Introduction.aspx\">Beta-thalassemia<\/a> is a blood disorder that plagues individuals throughout the entirety of their lives. There is no truly viable cure. The only real hope that people have of overcoming this disease is either a stem cell or bone marrow transplant; however, these procedures are rarely performed due to the life-threatening risk that comes with them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-remove-a-fatal-blood-disorder-from-human-embryos\/?utm_content=buffer8671d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-just-used-gene-editing-to-re...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Sun Yat-sen University have used gene editing to correct a potentially fatal blood condition. This world-first accomplishment represents the first step to a future where we literally edit disease out of our bodies. Beta-thalassemia is a blood disorder that plagues individuals throughout the entirety of their lives. There is no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72953","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}