But the results are very, very encouraging. Another study at a different center in Baylor essentially used very similar technology and got very similar results. This gene therapy technique could conceivably be applicable to any of the neuromuscular disorders, not just Duchenne muscular dystrophy. So I think to wrap things up, in conclusion, there has really been staggering advances over the last two years with regard to research in neuromuscular disorders. There are a variety of neuromuscular disorders where we have found gene abnormalities and the protein abnormalities produced by those genes' defects.
Gene therapy is on the horizon.
I think they are actually moving out into actual animal models, where they are injecting the viruses carrying the gene into the animal themselves. And I think we are probably a few years away yet from actual human investigations. A lot of that will stand on the results of the animal therapy and animal experiments. I do think that there are going to be some limitations with regard to how far a given individual has progressed with regard to their disease process, and my guess would be that if an individual has lost a tremendous amount of their muscle fibers, the treatment might have more limited abilities to effectively change the natural history in those individuals. None of that has really been worked out yet, but I don't see gene therapy being limited with regard to age, in that manner.