{"id":4233,"date":"2016-09-09T04:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:47:40","slug":"gene-therapy-for-sickle-cell-moves-closer-as-scientists-clear-unexpected-obstacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4233","title":{"rendered":"Gene therapy for sickle cell moves closer as scientists clear unexpected obstacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">R<\/span>esearchers\u00a0have cleared the last scientific\u00a0hurdle to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/01\/13\/gene-therapy-uneven-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">clinical trial of gene therapy<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> to cure sickle cell disease, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/87885\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup> on Tuesday, fueling hopes that they will begin enrolling patients early next year. But they dodged a bullet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/07\/sickle-cell-gene-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Researchers\u00a0have cleared the last scientific\u00a0hurdle to a clinical trial of gene therapy1 to cure sickle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}