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A geneticist’s biggest challenge: Curing his own son Michaela Haas © Ron Davis and his son, Whitney, who has been mostly bedridden for 10 years [Photo courtesy of Ashley... Ron Davis and his son, Whitney, who has been mostly bedridden for 10 years [Photo courtesy of Ashley Haugen] Palo Alto, California – Whitney Dafoe’s day begins at 2:30pm. His father, Ron Davis, peeks through the keyhole into the 37-year-old’s room. Is he awake? ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY is scrawled in re...

Palo Alto, California – Whitney Dafoe’s day begins at 2:30pm. His father, Ron Davis, peeks through the keyhole into the 37-year-old’s room. Is he awake? ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY is scrawled in red on a handmade sign pinned to the door below a picture of the Dalai Lama. Davis has rushed home from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, to take the afternoon shift. When Whitney raises his left hand, fingers clenched to a fist, that’s Davis’s cue. Whitney is ready for his dad to change ...