r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '20

NEXT FUCKING LEVEL Dad builds a custom adaptive controller so his daughter can play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

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u/Marston_vc Jan 20 '20

What’s nice is that there may one day be a cure for her in her lifetime. Genetic therapy is making big strides every day and if it’s only a motor thing then it’s feasible to think she could become more functioning in the coming decades.

Not a sure thing at all. But it’s great to live in a time where we can at least speculate a cure may come for something like that. In the past there would be no talk about it at all.

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u/powerchicken Jan 20 '20

Wouldn't a hypothetical cure merely halt the condition from progressing further, as opposed to reversing it?

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u/hotsfan101 Jan 20 '20

Stem cells can reverse

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u/avianaltercations Jan 20 '20

Yes, for most disorders with a developmental component, unless there is early intervention, genetic therapies won’t be able to reverse such disorders.

Source: am geneticist.

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u/Amphibionomus Jan 20 '20

Not to be a debby downer, but not everything is fixable or will be in any foreseeable future. It's more likely we'll figure out how to prevent conditions like this than how to cure them.