{"id":72443,"date":"2025-02-21T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72443"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:55:26","slug":"gene-therapy-experiment-gives-children-life-changing-sight-boost-at-london-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/gene-therapy-experiment-gives-children-life-changing-sight-boost-at-london-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene therapy experiment gives children &#8216;life-changing&#8217; sight boost at London hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zvO1H.img?w=534&amp;h=712&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Jack was among first in the world to get the pioneering gene therapy (Family Handout\/PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Medics at a London hospital have become the first in the world to successfully administer a pioneering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/gene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">gene<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">therapy<\/a>\u00a0that preserves sight in young\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">children<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/gene-therapy-experiment-gives-children-life-changing-sight-boost-at-london-hospital\/ar-AA1zvLJs?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f7ffe6cfcc4786e3df841a1abbd79d&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Medics at a London hospital have become the first in the world to successfully administer a pioneering\u00a0gene\u00a0therapy\u00a0that preserves sight in young\u00a0children.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Prof-James-Bainbridge.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72445,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443\/revisions\/72445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}