Ron Davis, a geneticist at Stanford, is one of our era's greatest inventors. Now, with his son ravaged by an incurable disease, Davis is leading a dream team of Nobel-winning scientists to find a cure.
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Multiple times a day, every day, Ron Davis sits with his head bowed, waiting outside his son's bedroom for a subtle signal that it's all right to come in. He opens the door to the space where Whitney has spent most of the last decade.Whitney lies motionless on a simple bed, his head shaved and his frame emaciated. He's fed by a tube directly into his stomach. His lips haven't uttered a word in five years.Davis, who is 77, leads a lab that invented much of the technology that powered the Human Genome Project.
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