{"id":94166,"date":"2019-07-27T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/first-crispr-study-inside-the-body-to-start-in-us"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T15:03:16","slug":"first-crispr-study-inside-the-body-to-start-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/first-crispr-study-inside-the-body-to-start-in-us","title":{"rendered":"First CRISPR study inside the body to start in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-crispr-study-inside-the-body-to-start-in-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness.<\/p>\n<p>People with the disease have normal eyes but lack a gene that converts light into signals to the brain that enable sight.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental treatment aims to supply kids and adults with a healthy version of the gene they lack, using a tool that cuts or \u201cedits\u201d DNA in a specific spot. It\u2019s intended as a onetime treatment that permanently alters the person\u2019s native DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness. People with the disease have normal eyes but lack a gene that converts light into signals to the brain that enable sight. The experimental treatment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94166","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\/94166","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=94166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}