03.02.10

No less, Crowley and his the missis received the devastating diagnosis that his daughter Megan, a moment ago 18 months old, had the rare recessive condition Pompe disorder, a failure of glycogen metabolism, causing the compound to lay away to toxic levels in the body’s muscles. “I’m grim, there’s nothing that can be done,” the doctors told Crowley. His son Patrick was diagnosed with the same upheaval shortly afterwards. The typical life expectancy at that time was about two years of age.

Of all the emotions the Crowleys sage in the weeks that followed, the overpowering feeling was determination – in definite to find a treatment for the incurable disease, and to live life to the fullest every day. But he had not interest in being turn as a hero. “I did my job as a dad,” he said modestly.

Crowley founded a biotech house called Novazyme, drawing personal inspiration from a dress down he heard at the BIO convention in 2000 from wheelchair-bound Christopher Reeve. He instantly raised money and sold the company in 2001 to Genzyme Corporation, which specialized in developing treatments for orphan diseases, for more than $100 million. Genzyme’s upper Myozyme was approved by the FDA in April 2006 and remains the gauge of treatment.

Source: Bio-IT World

03.02.10

BLEU FLU:  Paris in the derive from time is always a stern test for any Irish team, and the key to breaking into the French fortress is containing the Gallic hordes in the stony-hearted opening exchanges, writes Johnny Watterson.  

‘YEAH, I PLAYED in the first meet with Ireland in Stade de France. We were going there on the back of some grim experiences,” says Denis Hickie.

The former Irish winger sums it up superlatively. Paris in the spring, whether it was Stade Colombes, Parc de Princes or Stade de France has not been a welcoming venue for visiting Irish teams.

In 1972, Ireland defeated the French at Stade Colombes and also in Dublin. The following year, England drew a ongoing ovation from the Lansdowne crowd for coming to play when Wales and Scotland declined because of the escalating spot in the North.

That year, Ireland beat England as well as France at to the heart and away and the England captain John Pullen said something along the lines of “we might not be facts but at least we turned up”. But the 14-9 win that year in Paris was to be a last hurrah for Ireland until two years after Hickie’s 1998 inflict (and try), when his hat-trick-scoring colleague in the centre, Brian O’Driscoll, bridged a gap of almost 30 years of Gallic-flavoured indigence.

Source: Irish Times

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