{"id":73784,"date":"2017-11-15T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ap-exclusive-us-scientists-try-1st-gene-editing-in-the-body"},"modified":"2017-11-15T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:22:28","slug":"ap-exclusive-us-scientists-try-1st-gene-editing-in-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/ap-exclusive-us-scientists-try-1st-gene-editing-in-the-body","title":{"rendered":"AP Exclusive: US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ap-exclusive-us-scientists-try-1st-gene-editing-in-the-body.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, scientists have attempted to cure a person\u2019s disease by editing a gene inside the body.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists used an IV to inject a patient with billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a specific spot. \u201cWe cut your DNA, open it up, insert a gene, stitch it back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have edited people\u2019s genes in the past, but that work involved altering cells inside a lab and then returning them to the body, whereas the latest experiment was performed inside a person\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4ae98919b52e43d8a8960e0e260feb0a\/AP-Exclusive:-US-scientists-try-1st-gene-editing-in-the-body\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/4ae98919b52e43d8a8960e0e260feb0a\/AP-Exclu...n-the-body<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, scientists have attempted to cure a person\u2019s disease by editing a gene inside the body. Scientists used an IV to inject a patient with billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a specific spot. \u201cWe cut your DNA, open it up, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}