One of the victims of this rare disease, a young boy of 7, was admitted to a German hospital in 2015 in a critical state. Along with his team, they developed a treatment technique that involved attaching genetically modified skin grafts to the dermis—the inner layer of tissue that makes up the skin, with the epidermis being the outer layer. They inserted a non-mutated form of the LAMB3 gene, which aids the adherence of the epidermis to the dermis, and then cultured these genetically modified cells in vitro. These cells were then grafted onto the young boy. According to a report in the journal Nature, the young boy was discharged from the hospital in February 2016.