Mark Davis

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Knowledge is Power

“My patients don’t have time to wait. We will lose a generation.” -Dr. Wendy Chung at Boston Children’s on the mission of new nonprofit, the Center for Therapeutic Genetics, “to develop gene therapy treatments that can be used and reused in disease after disease.”

‘Too Rare to Care’? A New Center for Rare Diseases Hopes to Change That

A new nonprofit wants to streamline gene therapy for diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies — making treatment more like a routine procedure than a bespoke drug.

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'True Faith' was released as a single by New Order on this day in July 1987. The song was penned during a 10-day studio session with producer Stephen Hague as new material for New Order's first singles compilation album, 'Substance 1987'.🎹 'True Faith' charted at No. 4.💿

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So sad to hear of Dave Kendall's passing. I watched 120 Minutes religiously the years he hosted — he, and the show, were formative — and was thrilled much later when we started emailing over my old music blog, then ended up as colleagues on Sirius XM's 1st Wave. He was so kind and supportive.

Screenshot of MTV "120 Minutes" creator/host Dave Kendall interviewing PiL's John Lydon during broadcast from Tijuana, Mexico, in 1992

The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.