{"id":89731,"date":"2019-04-19T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-us-has-officially-started-using-crispr-on-humans"},"modified":"2019-04-19T05:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T12:22:31","slug":"the-us-has-officially-started-using-crispr-on-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-us-has-officially-started-using-crispr-on-humans","title":{"rendered":"The US Has Officially Started Using CRISPR on Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-has-officially-started-using-crispr-on-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a UPenn spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/04\/16\/712402435\/first-u-s-patients-treated-with-crispr-as-gene-editing-human-trials-get-underway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed to <em>NPR<\/em><\/a> that the institution\u2019s researchers have officially started using CRISPR on humans \u2014 marking a national first that could lead to a more widespread use of the technology in the future.<\/p>\n<p><b>Last Resort<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson told <em>NPR<\/em> that the UPenn team has thus far used CRISPR to treat two cancer patients, one with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma. Both had relapsed after standard cancer treatments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-human-crispr-cancer-patients\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, a UPenn spokesperson confirmed to NPR that the institution\u2019s researchers have officially started using CRISPR on humans \u2014 marking a national first that could lead to a more widespread use of the technology in the future. Last Resort The spokesperson told NPR that the UPenn team has thus far used CRISPR to treat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89731","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=89731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}