{"id":74288,"date":"2017-12-08T02:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-tried-first-ever-gene-editing-directly-inside-a-patients-body"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:00:55","slug":"scientists-have-tried-first-ever-gene-editing-directly-inside-a-patients-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-tried-first-ever-gene-editing-directly-inside-a-patients-body","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Tried First-Ever Gene Editing Directly Inside a Patient\u2019s Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-gUUB0ofVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a bold first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have edited a person\u2019s genes directly inside living tissue in an ambitious bid to cure a man of a rare, crippling genetic disorder.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/incredible-video-crispr-cas9-editing-dna-real-time-atomic-force-microscopy\">CRISPR<\/a> has broken ground in things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breaking-scientists-have-reportedly-used-crispr-to-edit-a-human-embryo-in-the-us-for-the-first-time\">editing human embryos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/crispr-gene-editing-has-been-tested-in-a-human-for-the-first-time\">injecting patients<\/a> with genetically edited cells, this alternative technique pioneers a new real-time approach to infusing a person\u2019s blood with a gene-editing virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, a patient has received a therapy intended to precisely edit the DNA of cells directly inside the body,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/sangamo-announces-treatment-of-first-patient-in-landmark-phase-12-clinical-trial-evaluating-in-vivo-genome-editing-for-mps-ii-300556189.html\">says<\/a> CEO of Sangamo Therapeutics, Sandy Macrae, whose company is testing the experimental procedure.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-edit-man-s-genes-directly-inside-body-bold-experimental-first-hunter-syndrome\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-edit-man-s-genes-dire...r-syndrome<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have edited a person\u2019s genes directly inside living tissue in an ambitious bid to cure a man of a rare, crippling genetic disorder. While CRISPR has broken ground in things like editing human embryos and injecting patients with genetically edited cells, this alternative technique pioneers a new real-time approach [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74288","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\/74288","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=74288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74368,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74288\/revisions\/74368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}