{"id":72990,"date":"2017-09-30T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T03:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-gene-editor-used-to-fix-disease-in-embryos-study"},"modified":"2017-09-30T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T03:33:31","slug":"new-gene-editor-used-to-fix-disease-in-embryos-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/new-gene-editor-used-to-fix-disease-in-embryos-study","title":{"rendered":"New gene editor used to fix disease in embryos: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gene-editor-used-to-fix-disease-in-embryos-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists used an adapted version of a controversial gene-editing technique to correct a disease-causing mutation in human embryos, a medical first cautiously hailed by other experts Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The team used a so-called \u201cbase editor\u201d\u2014an adaptation of the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping tool\u2014to correct a single, mutated \u201cletter\u201d among about three billion in the intricate coding of the human genome.<\/p>\n<p>The targeted mutation can cause humans to be born with beta-Thalassaemia, a potentially fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+blood+disorder\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic blood disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-gene-editor-disease-embryos.html#jCp\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;09-gene-editor-disease-embryos.html#jCp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists used an adapted version of a controversial gene-editing technique to correct a disease-causing mutation in human embryos, a medical first cautiously hailed by other experts Thursday. The team used a so-called \u201cbase editor\u201d\u2014an adaptation of the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping tool\u2014to correct a single, mutated \u201cletter\u201d among about three billion in the intricate coding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72990","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\/72990","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}