Lipoprotein Lipase Disorder (LPLD) is a genetic mutation that causes the body to be unable to produce an essential protein required to process dietary fat. A victim’s blood becomes white with fat particles that can eventually destroy the pancreas. People with LPLD cannot eat any food that contains fat, nor drink even a drop of alcohol. Women with LPLD cannot have children. Doctors have tried every fat and cholesterol-lowering drug on the market, but not of them work.
A team of Canadian scientists found a cure for LPLD. It took thirty years and a number of acts of serendipity to find it and make it available to the world. It’s called Glybera, and it is the world’s first gene therapy. Yet, according to CBC News, nobody can have it.
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