While it may not make for a really, really cool genetic research grant project for medical researchers, from a patient's perspective, nutritional therapy is a lot easier to do than changing your genes. Perhaps diet therapy would be a cheaper and more pragmatic area to study than gene therapy. Part of the answer is that you can't patent treatments like having a daily salad with magnesium rich vegetables, limiting your vitamin C intake or taking a zinc supplement. The big money is in getting a patent on a drug or patenting a genetic therapy cure. No one is going to get rich off finding a nutritional or non-patentable supplement cure for connective tissue disorders, so unfortunately this limits the number of researchers interested in pursuing this area of study.
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