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...There may be some incremental advantages in some fields, like gene editing or artificial intelligence....
...Derek Hill, professor of biomedical engineering at University College London, said the government would need to invest if it wanted to have a significant impact in the field....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Several other Covid-19 vaccines in development, including the Russian Sputnik-V and candidates from Johnson & Johnson of the US and CanSino of China, use adenoviruses....
...The impact on shipping “appears to be much worse” than during the Sars outbreak almost 20 years ago, Gene Seroka, the port’s executive director told CNBC....
...In the latest episode of the FT’s Behind the Money podcast, I talk with Derek Brower, the FT’s US energy editor, about the shale industry’s debt problem and find out why it faces a credit crunch....
...And I think actually when you look at the big picture the whole election, obviously number one is Labour v Tory, as always. Yeah....
...What caused a stir was the designer’s low V-neck mermaid gown with bandeau accent, modified from her autumn show....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...The London 100m was going to be the ultimate sizzler: the Champ v the Kid....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The Rage , by Gene Kerrigan, Vintage, RRP£7.99 Naylor is a professional thief barely out of jail when he plots his next heist....
...The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35, 736 pages Caro’s magnum opus, begun in 1976 and still to encompass most of Johnson’s five years in the White...
...They have an “enterprise gene”, if you like....
...I recall suggesting the wonderful early Caribbean comedies of V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott’s moving speech when he received the Nobel Prize. Which hotels satisfy my eccentric tastes?...
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