{"id":77828,"date":"2018-04-15T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/alzheimers-reversed"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:03:08","slug":"alzheimers-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/alzheimers-reversed","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimers Reversed by Editing a Single Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-reversed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco report that a gene variant associated with Alzheimer\u2019s works differently in mice and humans, and they also demonstrate how modifying this gene could potentially prevent the plaques associated with Alzheimer\u2019s from forming and damaging the brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An ApoE3 gene variant is associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gene apolipoprotein E3 (ApoE3) has a variant known as ApoE4, which is associated with the development and progress of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. People with just one copy of the ApoE4 gene are at twice the risk as people without this gene variant. Some people even have two copies of the ApoE4 gene, which makes their risk of Alzheimer\u2019s a staggering twelve times greater.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/alzheimers-reversed-by-editing-a-single-gene\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/alzheimers-reversed-by-editing-a-single-gene\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco report that a gene variant associated with Alzheimer\u2019s works differently in mice and humans, and they also demonstrate how modifying this gene could potentially prevent the plaques associated with Alzheimer\u2019s from forming and damaging the brain. An ApoE3 gene variant is associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease The gene apolipoprotein [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77828","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77851,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77828\/revisions\/77851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}