Couple honored for peacebuilding, justice work
Maryknoll Lay Missioners honored Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello on World Mission Sunday in Washington on Oct. 23.
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Maryknoll Lay Missioners honored Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello on World Mission Sunday in Washington on Oct. 23.
Dive Brief: Scholar Rock, a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, plans to sometime this year test its most important experimental drug in a clinical trial that could provide the evidence needed to ask for approval. The drug, called apitegromab, is being studied as a potential treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, a rare, genetic disease that causes muscles to weaken and diminish. Scholar Rock on Tuesday announced results from a trial of almost 60 patients, showing those who were given apitegromab generally seemed to improve on certain scales used to measure the severi...