{"id":88538,"date":"2019-03-10T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/apoe-gene-therapy-in-clinical-trials-to-prevent-alzheimers"},"modified":"2019-03-10T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T02:22:23","slug":"apoe-gene-therapy-in-clinical-trials-to-prevent-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/apoe-gene-therapy-in-clinical-trials-to-prevent-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"APOE Gene Therapy In Clinical Trials To Prevent Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apoe-gene-therapy-in-clinical-trials-to-prevent-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The APOE gene, or the \u201cforgetting gene,\u201d has been proven to influence Alzheimer\u2019s risk. So a team of scientists is exploring the effect of gene therapy on people with the riskiest version of the gene.<\/p>\n<p>If it works, the pay-off could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>Gene therapy involves transplanting specific genetic material into human cells in order to correct genetic problems, and is typically attempted on diseases with a singular cause. Alzheimer\u2019s doesn\u2019t seem to have one singular cause \u2014 but since the risk of developing it is so strongly associated with the APOE gene, it\u2019s certainly worth a try.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thealzheimerssite.greatergood.com\/gene-therapy-apoe\/\">https:\/\/blog.thealzheimerssite.greatergood.com\/gene-therapy-apoe\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The APOE gene, or the \u201cforgetting gene,\u201d has been proven to influence Alzheimer\u2019s risk. So a team of scientists is exploring the effect of gene therapy on people with the riskiest version of the gene. If it works, the pay-off could be huge. Gene therapy involves transplanting specific genetic material into human cells in order [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88538","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}