{"id":660106,"date":"2020-07-07T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660106"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:17:58","slug":"scientists-use-nanoparticle-delivered-gene-therapy-to-inhibit-blinding-eye-disease-in-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660106","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use nanoparticle-delivered gene therapy to inhibit blinding eye disease in rodents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In experiments in rats and mice, two Johns Hopkins scientists\u2014an engineer and an ophthalmologist\u2014report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for blinding eye disease. A uniquely engineered large molecule allows researchers to compact large bundles of therapeutic DNA to be delivered into the cells of the eye.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-scientists-nanoparticle-delivered-gene-therapy-inhibit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists use nanoparticle-delivered gene therapy to inhibit blinding eye disease in rodents<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In experiments in rats and mice, two Johns Hopkins scientists\u2014an engineer and an ophthalmologist\u2014report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for blinding eye disease. A uniquely engineered&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}