{"id":78427,"date":"2018-05-08T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/ucsd-scientists-using-genome-editing-technology-to-cure-genetic-diseases"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:02:29","slug":"ucsd-scientists-using-genome-editing-technology-to-cure-genetic-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/ucsd-scientists-using-genome-editing-technology-to-cure-genetic-diseases","title":{"rendered":"UCSD Scientists Using Genome Editing Technology to Cure Genetic Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucsd-scientists-using-genome-editing-technology-to-cure-genetic-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crispr could eliminate Genetic disease.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s so small it can\u2019t be seen with the naked eye, but research is showing that CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is bringing sight to the blind.<\/p>\n<p>UC San Diego researchers are using CRISPR, a technology that allows scientists to edit genomes, to cure disease.<\/p>\n<p>For the last two years, Ophthalmologist Dr. Kang Zhang and UC San Diego researchers have been working with CRISPR, injecting CRISPR into the eyes of mice to cure retinitis pigmentosa \u2013 a genetic form of blindness. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen in mice is that we can bring back actually 30 percent of vision sometimes even 50 percent of vision,\u201d Dr. Zhang told NBC 7.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/CRISPR-Could-Eliminate-Genetic-Disease-481992181.html\">https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/CRISPR-Could-Eliminat...92181.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crispr could eliminate Genetic disease. It\u2019s so small it can\u2019t be seen with the naked eye, but research is showing that CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is bringing sight to the blind. UC San Diego researchers are using CRISPR, a technology that allows scientists to edit genomes, to cure disease. For the last [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78427","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\/78427","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78427\/revisions\/78469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}