{"id":89881,"date":"2019-04-24T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/injecting-crispr-into-fetal-brain-may-correct-autism-mutations"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:26:10","slug":"injecting-crispr-into-fetal-brain-may-correct-autism-mutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/injecting-crispr-into-fetal-brain-may-correct-autism-mutations","title":{"rendered":"Injecting CRISPR into fetal brain may correct autism mutations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/injecting-crispr-into-fetal-brain-may-correct-autism-mutations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are edging closer to a therapy for Angelman syndrome that involves injecting molecules that can edit genes into the fetal brain. They have already succeeded in mice and say the approach could eventually treat people with the syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The work is of high interest because a similar strategy could also work for other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/opinion\/viewpoint\/angelman-syndrome-bellwether-genetic-therapy-autism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">genetic conditions linked to autism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the prospect of injecting molecules into fetal brains poses ethical questions, experts caution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews.org\/news\/injecting-crispr-fetal-brain-may-correct-autism-mutations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are edging closer to a therapy for Angelman syndrome that involves injecting molecules that can edit genes into the fetal brain. They have already succeeded in mice and say the approach could eventually treat people with the syndrome. The work is of high interest because a similar strategy could also work for other genetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89881","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\/89881","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=89881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}