Good morning, Boston, and Happy April 1st. No jokes here, just the five things you need to know to start your Friday.
Akebia stock tumbles
Akebia Therapeutics Inc. shares plummeted yesterday after the FDA rejected the company’s anemia drug due to safety concerns, Rowan Walrath reports.
Yield curve inverts
The 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields inverted for the first time since 2019 yesterday, a bond market phenomenon that some experts say could signal a recession on the horizon.
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Updating trans patient records
A local health IT company is taking steps to help transgender and nonbinary patients avoid being misgendered because their medical records did not reflect their identity, Cassie McGrath reports.
Colleges rethink real estate
To help fund a campus overhaul, Lesley University is taking a step that few universities have done in recent years but one that is becoming more common: selling a real estate portfolio, Hilary Burns of The Business Journals reports.
Spice of life
Curio Spice Co. is a woman-owned B Corp. based in Cambridge that was founded in Claire Cheney’s garage in 2015. Business Journal photographer Gary Higgins takes you on a tour of the spice shop’s headquarters and retail location.
What else you need to know
By the numbers
This day in history
On this day in 1976, Apple Computer was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
The Petri Dish
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What I’m watching
Murderville on Netflix
What I’m reading
Voyage of Mercy, by Stephen Puleo
What’s on my playlist
Vincent, by Don McLean
Fowl weather?
Today the temperatures could reach 60 degrees. Finally. And with that springtime weather comes a couple of season-appropriate items — of the feathered-friend variety.
First is this cute story about a New England Aquarium staffer who on was vacation at York Beach in Maine last year when she saw an injured sanderling — a small shorebird. She contacted the local Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, then caught the bird. Now, the sanderling, named “Peepsqueak,” is back to full health, but won’t be able to fly again, and has been transferred to the aquarium long-term. You can meet Peepsqueek here.
Along similar lines, Comcast yesterday announced the installation of a new 4K, live-streaming “nest cam” featuring an active pair of ospreys in a nest at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve on Cape Cod. The live nest cam, ideally, will offer up a view of the ospreys’ offspring and is the result of a collaboration between Comcast, the Friends of Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge and Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the Refuge partners.
I’m still waiting for my favorite local osprey cam, in the Belle Isle Marsh, to be turned back on.
PARTING SHOT
Yesterday, I shared Elton John’s tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. But on March 18, just a week before he died, during Lollapalooza Chile, Hawkins sang Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” It’s not to be missed:
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