The Future of Gene Therapy

The other great hope is gene therapy where basically they delete the gene that's responsible for making this protein misfold and insert the correct version of it. But until then there's going to be some problems for people with spongiform diseases because there's nothing you can do. Including with fatal familial insomnia you can give somebody GHB that's about it. It might decrease your heart rate and body temperature a little bit too but at that point you know when you're taking GHB to get 20 minutes of sleep you've got a pretty sad end coming.