How to Fix a Boy With No Skin
"You can't call it a cure...but it's probably getting close."
Updated | A 7-year-old boy with a rare and fatal skin condition that causes gruesome blisters has been given a treatment that is nothing short of a medical breakthrough. An entire new, genetically modified skin now covers most of his body.
The boy, which The Atlantic reported was a Syrian refugee named Hassan, had almost no skin when he arrived at a German hospital’s burn center in June 2015. For months, doctors struggled just to keep him alive. Today, he’s going to school, playing soccer and is not in danger from his disease.
A team of doctors genetically modified a small section of the child's own skin
