{"id":89625,"date":"2019-04-17T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-crispr-tech-could-cure-herpes"},"modified":"2019-04-17T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:22:41","slug":"new-crispr-tech-could-cure-herpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-crispr-tech-could-cure-herpes","title":{"rendered":"New CRISPR Tech Could Cure Herpes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-crispr-tech-could-cure-herpes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene hacking techniques that were recently used in human cells for the first time could someday let doctors shred up and destroy viruses like herpes or hepatitis B inside human cells, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique is called CRISPR-Cas3 \u2014 usually, when you hear about CRISPR tech, it\u2019s the Cas9 variety \u2014 and Cornell researchers believe it could be used to cure viral diseases, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2019\/04\/crispr-cas3-innovation-holds-promise-disease-cures-advancing-science\">university-published press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/new-crispr-tech-cure-herpes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene hacking techniques that were recently used in human cells for the first time could someday let doctors shred up and destroy viruses like herpes or hepatitis B inside human cells, scientists say. The new technique is called CRISPR-Cas3 \u2014 usually, when you hear about CRISPR tech, it\u2019s the Cas9 variety \u2014 and Cornell researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89625","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}