{"id":99166,"date":"2019-11-29T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-new-crispr-technique-could-fix-almost-all-genetic-diseases"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:23:12","slug":"a-new-crispr-technique-could-fix-almost-all-genetic-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-new-crispr-technique-could-fix-almost-all-genetic-diseases","title":{"rendered":"A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-crispr-technique-could-fix-almost-all-genetic-diseases3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anzalone\u2019s prime editor is a little different. Its enzyme is actually two that have been fused together\u2014a molecule that acts like a scalpel combined with something called a reverse transcriptase, which converts RNA into DNA. His RNA guide is a little different too: It not only finds the DNA in need of fixing, but also carries a copy of the edit to be made. When it locates its target DNA, it makes a little nick, and the reverse transcriptase starts adding the corrected sequence of DNA letter by letter, like the strikers on a typewriter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A less error-prone DNA editing method could correct many more harmful mutations than was previously possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anzalone\u2019s prime editor is a little different. Its enzyme is actually two that have been fused together\u2014a molecule that acts like a scalpel combined with something called a reverse transcriptase, which converts RNA into DNA. His RNA guide is a little different too: It not only finds the DNA in need of fixing, but also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99166","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=99166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}