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...Over more than a decade of joint effort, the pair worked out how to manipulate mRNA, the molecule that translates genes into proteins, into a stable form that can be used in pharmaceutical and vaccine development...
...Law: Read the profile of the Belgian-born leader of Allen & Overy who is the driving force behind one of the largest mergers ever seen in the legal industry....
...The European Commission is considering easing the regulation of gene editing in agricultural production. The process involves deleting or adding genes from similar crop species....
...The World of Work Allen & Overy is introducing a chatbot powered by the same AI behind ChatGPT to “support” its lawyers in creating contracts....
...Crispr gene editing speeds from lab to treatment room Just a decade after the revolutionary gene-editing technology was invented, the first drug to make use of it, targeting inherited blood diseases, will...
...poles of the Huxleys’ curricula vitae, An Intimate History of Evolution is also a biography of ideas, using one family’s history to explore the development of theories about generations, genealogy and genes...
...and Steve Jobs with the contemporary story of Crispr and gene editing — the most significant biomedical advance of the past decade....
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...Since Darwin, biologists have always maintained that survival is about the selfish gene. Simard’s work upends that. Trees are not solitary....
...Since they can’t locomote, plants have had to master biochemistry both to defend themselves and to attract the attention of animals who would disseminate their genes....
...breathtaking and far-reaching developments coming out of the laboratory are detailed in The Code Breaker (Simon & Schuster, March), Walter Isaacson’s account of Jennifer Doudna and her pioneering work on gene...
...Allen’s first hero was the American drummer and band leader Gene Krupa. But discovering Blakey was a kind of epiphany....
...Economic Dignity Gene Sperling, Penguin, RRP$28 Gene Sperling, chief White House economic adviser to presidents Clinton and Obama, addresses a central question: what is the goal of economic policy?...
...In times of trouble (famine, gene mutations, infectious diseases) the second X chromosome provides females with the genetic equivalent of a fit, fleet and well-equipped reserve army....
...“There is always a story that you can construct to show why a particular group of genes is grouped together,” Dr Allen said....
...Andrew Ballheimer will step down as global managing partner of Allen & Overy at the end of his current term in April 2020 and retire from the firm after 15 years in senior management roles....
...Mike Allen, my secondary school English teacher. Screenwriter Geoff Case gave me a leg-up, as did Sophie Balhetchet at World Productions....
...He then became a radio gag writer for the well-known comedian Fred Allen....
...Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are , by Robert Plomin, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 288 pages Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are , by Kevin J Mitchell, Princeton, RRP$29.95/£24, 304 pages...
...He predicts that renewable energy will be so abundant as to be virtually free; that mining asteroids will release us from resource shortages; gene editing will cure disease; bioengineering will allow us...
...By information, Davies means far more than the data that we process in our brains and encode in our genes....
...Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, by Nathan Lents, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£16.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$27 By many measures Homo sapiens is the most...
...In the UK the East London Genes and Health study is acquiring data from 100,000 people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin....
...A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution, by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg, Bodley Head, RRP£20/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 Doudna is a key figure in the development of “gene...
...She examines a new study of UK secondary school exam results that has found genes are far more important than educators....
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