This piece of news talks about
Hassan, a boy who suffers from an odd genetic disease called junctional
epidermolysis bullosa that leaves his skin fragile as a butterfly’s wing therefore
the title of the news. This sickness means Hassan’s DNA lacks the instructions
for sticking his epidermis to the dermis.
There was no cure, but a team of
biologists specialising in gene therapy helped the family, and the parents,
desperate because their child was going to die, approved the experimental
therapy. They extracted from him a little bit of his skin and they injected a
virus that inserted in Hassan’s DNA, the instructions to stick his epidermis to
the dermis.
Nowadays, his skin is totally
functional and there’s no sign of blistering.
Although this treatment is not
currently available to the public, with some improves it could be a therapy
that lasts a lifetime.
Personal opinion
From my point of view, science is
making progress at full speed. Every day the world discovers and learns lots
and lots of new things, and this is something amazing. Although, it could be
good like new treatments or medicines, it could also be bad, like new weapons
or bombs. But in this case, science has won and these scientists have probably
discovered a cure for this illness.
I believe that maybe if this boy had
been born to a different family, maybe he wouldn’t had survive, because
nowadays there is still a lot of people who don’t believe in new science and
refuse to try new treatments. Thanks to him and his family, science has taken a
step forward and probably found a new solution to an illness.
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