{"id":159410,"date":"2026-10-28T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159410"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:00:13","slug":"in-china-gene-editing-trial-2-children-improved-1-died-and-1-withdrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159410","title":{"rendered":"In China gene-editing trial, 2 children improved, 1 died and 1 withdrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFour seriously ill Chinese boys who would almost certainly have died in their twenties from a rare inherited disease received the same highly anticipated gene-editing drug.<br \/>\nMore than a year later, a set of cruel and contradictory data emerged.<br \/>\nTwo boys gained the strength to walk farther. One boy showed no improvement in gait and subsequently withdrew from the trial. And the fourth boy\u2019s heart stopped beating 81 hours after receiving the medication intravenously, owing to a severe systemic&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372452\/china-gene-editing-trial-2-children-improved-1-died-and-1-withdrew\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFour seriously ill Chinese boys who would almost certainly have died in their twenties from a rare inherited disease received the same highly anticipated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}