{"id":77914,"date":"2018-04-18T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-stunning-gene-therapy-breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-beta-thalassemia-a-devastating-blood-disease"},"modified":"2018-04-18T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T01:02:39","slug":"a-stunning-gene-therapy-breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-beta-thalassemia-a-devastating-blood-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-stunning-gene-therapy-breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-beta-thalassemia-a-devastating-blood-disease","title":{"rendered":"A Stunning Gene-Therapy Breakthrough in the Fight Against Beta Thalassemia, a Devastating Blood Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-stunning-gene-therapy-breakthrough-in-the-fight-against-beta-thalassemia-a-devastating-blood-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerome Groopman discusses the results of a trial described in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which twenty-two patients with beta thalassemia, a common and devastating blood disorder, were treated with gene therapy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/elements\/a-stunning-cure-for-one-of-the-worlds-most-devastating-blood-diseases\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/elements\/a-stunning-cure-f...d-diseases<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome Groopman discusses the results of a trial described in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which twenty-two patients with beta thalassemia, a common and devastating blood disorder, were treated with gene therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77914","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}