New Delhi, July 8 -- In an episode of my podcast titled 'The Incurable Disease,' I told of how a husband and wife with no previous medical training or experience built a genetics laboratory in a bungalow in Bangalore so they could find a treatment for Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) to save their son. As much as this is a story of grit and perseverance, it also shows how far genetic technology has come and how affordable its innovations can now be.

Diseases like DMD are rare medical conditions. They affect a relatively small proportion of the general population. Yet, over 400 million people suffer from more than 7,000 known rare diseases today, with the Global South bearing the bulk of this burden.

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