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...Success in such societies is defined by biological reproduction and the transmission of one’s genes....
...Bayer is buying US-based gene therapy pioneer Asklepios for up to $4bn, in the German group’s biggest pharma deal since 2006....
...Patients with a gene that shows a predisposition for Alzheimer’s — ApoE — were even more likely to have ARIA-E....
...It just matches with my genes.”...
...Think of James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, except with the amateur sleuth incapacitated by drunkenness rather than a broken leg....
...Yet that cannot be the only reason that the “tragedy of the commons” has joined a very small group of concepts – such as the “prisoner’s dilemma” or the “selfish gene” – to have escaped from academia to...
...Nobel Prizes that Changed Medicine, edited by Gilbert Thompson, Imperial College Press, RRP£32, 354 pages Many wealthy donors have attempted to match Alfred Nobel by offering generous prizes to reward achievement...
...One industrialist who avoided that fate was Alfred Nobel, the Swedish explosives magnate....
...Access the census from a library, or, at home, try a free trial from Ancestry.co.uk, findmypast.co.uk or Genes Reunited....
...Here he borrows from the historian Alfred W Crosby, who in 1972 coined the phrase “Columbian Exchange” to describe the traffic of species between continents....
...The very faces are temps perdu Tinseltown: the two leads could be Gene Tierney and George Brent gone Latin....
...And how many conventional economists would know that “about 20 per cent of people are homozygous for the long version of the serotonin transporter gene with a genetic tendency to look on the bright side”...
...The discovery of genes, and then DNA, solved the overall mystery, though many puzzles remain....
...What is inflammatory here is the suggestion that we are a prisoner of our genes rather than our environment; without care, sociobiology plays into the hands of extreme conservatives....
...That was left to a French psychologist, Alfred Binet, and his student, Victor Henri....
...“Medical entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann intends to build 400,000 square feet of labs and offices, and Oregon Health and Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute will also locate here.”...
...Apart from Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain, it is roundly abused in films, books and songs....
...According to Lipton, the refugees were processed by Alfred Boch, the company’s general manager and vice-president....
...But whereas Darwin believed we lost our hair because men happened to prefer smooth women, most of his followers from Alfred Russel Wallace onwards have sought a more utilitarian explanation....
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