In Memory of Sam Berns

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Photo of Dr. Francis Collins and Sam Berns.

 
01/12/2014 12:12 PM EST

This weekend, in a heartbreaking phone call from his parents, I learned of the death of Sam Berns, a courageous young man with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. Sam may have only lived 17 years, but in his short life he taught the rest of us a lot about how to live. Sam’s parents, Scott Berns and […]