STAT+: This father built a gene therapy for his son. Now comes the harder part: saving others’ children, too
STAT December 9, 2024
Terry Pirovolakis receives roughly 5 to 10 messages a week from strangers. Sometimes, his inbox fills overnight with emails from China. Sometimes, he’ll end a string of Zoom meetings to find texts from across the U.S.
Their stories are as variable as our 3 billion-letter genomes and the still-uncounted ways they can go wrong: Muscles crumbling, neurons misfiring, eyes fading to black. Yet they all have...