AI-generated conceptual illustration of a glowing hippocampus inside a translucent brain beside a dimmer dial, with electrical waves changing from jagged to smooth
Biotechnology

A gene therapy with a dimmer switch, and what happened when it was switched off

Three people with drug-resistant epilepsy had seizures fall by an average of 92.6% after a virus made their neurons sensitive to a pill. One patient stopped taking the pill, and the seizures came back.