{"id":92302,"date":"2019-06-18T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/google-backs-a-bid-to-use-crispr-to-prevent-heart-disease"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:03:17","slug":"google-backs-a-bid-to-use-crispr-to-prevent-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/google-backs-a-bid-to-use-crispr-to-prevent-heart-disease","title":{"rendered":"Google backs a bid to use CRISPR to prevent heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-backs-a-bid-to-use-crispr-to-prevent-heart-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder why some fortunate people eat chips, don\u2019t exercise, and still don\u2019t get clogged arteries? It could be because they\u2019ve got lucky genes.<\/p>\n<p>Now Alphabet (Google\u2019s parent company) is bankrolling a startup company that plans to use gene editing to spread fortunate DNA variations with \u201cone-time\u201d injections of the gene-editing tool CRISPR.<\/p>\n<p>Heart doctors involved say the DNA-tweaking injections could \u201cconfer lifelong protection\u201d against heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why some fortunate people eat chips, don\u2019t exercise, and still don\u2019t get clogged arteries? It could be because they\u2019ve got lucky genes. Now Alphabet (Google\u2019s parent company) is bankrolling a startup company that plans to use gene editing to spread fortunate DNA variations with \u201cone-time\u201d injections of the gene-editing tool CRISPR. Heart doctors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,1506,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-food","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92302","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=92302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}