
The Million Dollar Drug!
Canada is a pretty cool country, we have maple syrup, beavertails, we’re amazing at hockey, and we dominate in the Winter Olympics. What you might not know, though, is that researchers at the University of British Columbia invented Glybera. What is that? It’s one of Canada’s, if not the world’s, greatest scientific achievements of late. Glybera is a drug that has been approved to fix a faulty gene with a single dose. This faulty gene is the cause of lipoprotein lipase disorde