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Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. -- Anthony Fauci
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions. -- Anthony Fauci
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. -- Craig Venter
I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease. -- Martin Shkreli
This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger. -- Josette Sheeran
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion. -- Hamilton Jordan
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery. -- Barbara Kingsolver
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. -- Sanya Richards-Ross
My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. -- Mattie Stepanek
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease. -- Peter Latham
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies. -- Virginia Postrel
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. -- Terry Pratchett

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