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Four-year-old Mikey Tighe of Spring Valley, who suffers from mitochondrial disease, slipped into a coma when he was 3. |
Small targets
Mitochondrial disease strikes at the cellular level, hitting children hardest
By Scott LaFee
STAFF WRITER
At 8 months old, Mikey Tighe suffered an unexplained seizure but recovered. Over the next two years, the Spring Valley boy “got every kind of test imaginable,” said his mother, Grace. “Everything came back negative.” Then, just before his third birthday in 2005, Mikey went into severe respiratory distress, unable to breathe.
Acclaimed geneticist's talents take her in several directions
By Joseph P. Kahn
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Sabeti has been writing other songs lately with a folk or techno vibe, she says, “partly because they're a lot of fun and partly because I don't have much time to gig these days.” Bouncing up from the piano, she heads back to the studio mixing board, where she has been polishing a track with engineer-producer Andy Hong.
Gender: Maternal diet
Maternal diet influences the chances of sheep having male or female offspring, according to a University of Missouri study.
