What is going to lead to a cure for Xeroderma pigmentosum. Is it genetic engineering or what?
It is a hereditary disease and it is definitely not genetic engineered. The disease was discovered long before science ever knew about genes. As for a cure, I don’t know. I use to work as a chemist in a large pharmaceutical company. Drug companies invest money in drugs that will treat common diseases. For examples, a drug (e.g. Zocor) for high cholesterol or for diabetes (e.g. metformin). These are chronic disease so the patients have to use them for the rest of their lives, which means more money for the drug companies – the so-called “cash cow.” Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is a very rare disease which gets very little attention. Drug companies don’t have interests in developing a drug to treat a disease which only affects a couple of thousand people globally. There is no profit in it. Like they say “money makes the world go round.” In the movie “The Others,” starring Nicole Kidman, both children suffer from XP. This was the only time I have ever heard XP mentioned in the media. To cur
