{"id":9464,"date":"2018-02-03T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2018-02-03T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:46:39","slug":"a-crispr-trick-in-blind-mice-points-the-way-to-possible-treatments-for-inherited-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9464","title":{"rendered":"A CRISPR trick in blind mice points the way to possible treatments for inherited diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">I<\/span>t might seem that\u00a0scientists have never met a chunk of DNA\u00a0they couldn\u2019t edit in mice or isolated cells using CRISPR<strong>\u00a0\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0mutations causing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature25164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deafness<\/a>\u00a0to those for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/1\/eaap9004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duchenne muscular dystrophy.<\/a>\u00a0In fact, they are learning what every pencil- or Word-wielding editor knows: It\u2019s much easier to improve something that\u2019s in terrible shape than writing that\u2019s near perfect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/02\/02\/crispr-blindness-retinitis-pigmentosa\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">Notice: 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) It might seem that\u00a0scientists have never met a chunk of DNA\u00a0they couldn\u2019t edit in mice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","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=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}