"A priority among local transportation agencies remains avoiding traffic jams rather than responding to concerns of pedestrians in the most danger, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods and wield less political influence." www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Then in July, NIH was able to hire a highly-skilled technician qualified to do the cell prep that had created a patient back-log.

NIH said that no trials were delayed, no patients dropped from trials. They blamed delays on Steven Rosenberg, a legend of cancer research.

Richard's story and another patient, Natalie Phelps, caught the attention of Congress, who raised concern about these delays in hearings and in letters.

"What I would simply say is cancer can't wait." --Richard Schlueter, a 56-year-old metastatic cancer patient whose therapy was delayed due to terminations at NIH.

In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME!

YAY SCIENCE!

Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT