{"id":97832,"date":"2019-10-25T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-gene-editing-technology-could-correct-89-of-genetic-defects"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:22:52","slug":"new-gene-editing-technology-could-correct-89-of-genetic-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-gene-editing-technology-could-correct-89-of-genetic-defects","title":{"rendered":"New gene editing technology could correct 89% of genetic defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-gene-editing-technology-could-correct-89-of-genetic-defects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a new gene-editing technology that could potentially correct up to 89% of genetic defects, including those that cause diseases like sickle cell anemia.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique is called \u201cprime editing,\u201d and was developed by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-019-1711-4&key=15785bf48552a1cdfab425661118986f\" target=\"_blank\">published their findings<\/a> Monday in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Prime editing builds on powerful CRISPR gene editing, but is more precise and versatile \u2014 it \u201cdirectly writes new genetic information into a specified DNA site,\u201d according to the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a new gene-editing technology that could potentially correct up to 89% of genetic defects, including those that cause diseases like sickle cell anemia. The new technique is called \u201cprime editing,\u201d and was developed by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, who published their findings Monday in the journal Nature. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97832","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}