{"id":84212,"date":"2026-01-30T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84212"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:10:10","slug":"boy-becomes-first-in-uk-to-receive-gene-editing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/boy-becomes-first-in-uk-to-receive-gene-editing-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy becomes first in UK to receive gene-editing treatment"},"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\/AA1Vd2vx.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=263&amp;y=209&amp;s=106&amp;d=106\" alt=\"Adam Rehman\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\">A 13-year-old boy, Adam Rehman, has returned to the hospital to thank staff after receiving a revolutionary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/gene-editing-0\" 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}\">gene-editing<\/a> treatment for thalassaemia.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/boy-becomes-first-in-uk-to-receive-gene-editing-treatment\/ar-AA1Vd7B9?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697b517734884998acd745b34e25ad53&amp;cvpid=3736a0bf87304b00e7d6ef12a751e95c&amp;ei=58\"> Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 13-year-old boy, Adam Rehman, has returned to the hospital to thank staff after receiving a revolutionary\u00a0gene-editing treatment for thalassaemia. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84212","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\/2024\/05\/gene-editing.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84212","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=84212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84236,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84212\/revisions\/84236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}