{"id":9008,"date":"2026-03-01T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:06:13","slug":"caffeine-could-trigger-gene-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/caffeine-could-trigger-gene-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"Caffeine Could Trigger Gene Therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/span><\/span> have created a system where caffeine can switch on gene-editing in engineered cells. Using CRISPR and \u201ccaffebodies,\u201d cells can be activated by coffee, chocolate, or soda to target cancer or regulate insulin for diabetes. Rapamycin can act as an off-switch, making the therapy controllable. This approach may allow simple everyday compounds to guide advanced treatments safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Texas A&amp;M University have created a s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unescoalfozanprize.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}