Perseverance pays
Neurologist Hugo Moser's unveiling of a 10-year-long study into the effects of Lorenzo's oil has shown that perseverance and logic are a powerful substitute to conventional research. When Lorenzo, the son of Augusto and Michaela Odone, was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy (ald), there was no cure for the disease. Unable and unwilling to let their child die, they worked hard at understanding biochemistry. They pored through textbooks, pestered scientists and came up with Lorenzo's oil