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Good morning. It’s almost August and there still isn’t a song of the summer. An essay in the Atlantic over the weekend argued that Justin Bieber’s new song “Daisies” might be it. I like the song, produced in part by legend Dijon, but I’m not quite sure it’s the one. What’s your song of the summer? Send nominations and news to theresa.gaffney@statnews.com.
The first known attempt to prevent ALS
When Jeff Vierstra (above) signed up for Columbia University’s ALS Families Project, he thought he would be participating as a carrier of a gene mutation that causes the devastating disease, not as a patient himself. His mother died from ALS when she was 32 years old, and decades later, only his sisters had begun to show early symptoms.
