The New Yorker profiles a family with a son who was the only known patient with a certain genetic disorder. Daniel MacArthur, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, are quoted. The article mentions that the National Institutes of Health awarded nine million dollars in January to researchers at Harvard Medical School to coordinate a nationwide network of centers for rare diseases.
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