{"id":83105,"date":"2026-01-04T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83105"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:36:03","slug":"woman-with-blood-disorder-hopes-for-cure-thanks-to-nhs-gene-editing-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/04\/woman-with-blood-disorder-hopes-for-cure-thanks-to-nhs-gene-editing-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman with blood disorder hopes for cure thanks to NHS gene-editing therapy"},"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\/AA1ToxYh.img?w=534&amp;h=712&amp;m=6&amp;x=378&amp;y=120&amp;s=408&amp;d=626\" alt=\"Kavita Mehta (left) in hospital (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust\/PA) (PA Media)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A woman who has received a breakthrough gene-editing treatment on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS<\/a> is hoping 2026 is the year she will be cured of a major blood disorder.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/woman-with-blood-disorder-hopes-for-cure-thanks-to-nhs-gene-editing-therapy\/ar-AA1Tn3EN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6959cc870e9a4a26a2191aa0342583ae&amp;ei=145\"> 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>A woman who has received a breakthrough gene-editing treatment on the\u00a0NHS is hoping 2026 is the year she will be cured of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83105","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\/2023\/03\/blood-clot.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105","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=83105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83106,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions\/83106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}