John Crowley burst into the back hallway of a Cheesecake Factory in New Jersey where his daughter Megan and her nurse had just finished lunch. Megan, 26, was lying unconscious on the tile floor next to her wheelchair. She was grayish, her lips purple. Nearly a quarter-century after plunging into biotech to find drugs to save Megan and her younger brother, Patrick, from a rare and deadly genetic disease, Crowley feared the battle had suddenly been lost.

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Persons: John Crowley, Megan, Patrick, Crowley Locations: New Jersey