{"id":2253,"date":"2009-03-24T22:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T22:21:54","slug":"not_a_cure_but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"Not A Cure, But An Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic researchers in Japan have developed an innovative method for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/biomedicine\/22327\/page1\/\">treating Duchenne&#8217;s Muscular Dystrophy in dogs<\/a>. The treatment involves a genetic &#8220;patch&#8221; that inhibits a portion of the DMD gene, causing the remainder of the gene to express itself as the milder Becker muscular dystrophy. Video of treated and untreated dogs shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/video\/?vid=279\">noticeable improvements in the treated dogs<\/a>, but it will be some time before this method can be tested on humans. <\/p>\n<p>It will probably take decades before congenital disabilities can be completely erased from an individual&#8217;s DNA, but treatments like this&#8211;that trade a severe condition for a milder form&#8211;might be much closer to being realized. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic researchers in Japan have developed an innovative method for treating Duchenne&#8217;s Muscular Dystrophy in dogs. The treatment involves a genetic &#8220;patch&#8221; that inhibits a portion of the DMD gene, causing the remainder of the gene to express itself as the milder Becker muscular dystrophy. Video of treated and untreated dogs shows noticeable improvements in <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2253' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}