Dr. Gene A. Starr

...In our minds, the workplace operates like a parallel, fantasy realm. Like a 1970s Dr Who episode, it is low budget but removed from Actual Life, a place where we are better versions of ourselves....

April 8, 2024

Ask AdeelaHow to be beautiful 2024

How do I save my saggy neck?

...While genes may follow their own ageing path, we can still make changes to strengthen and renew the network — such as year-long sun protection and incorporating smart devices into a weekly skincare routine...

November 14, 2023

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Beauty

Spa wars – the race to be the best retreat in the world

...Imagine a spa where workouts are designed by Hollywood fitness instructor Tracy Anderson, the longevity programme has guru Dr David Sinclair on speed-dial, a top New York plastic surgeon oversees tweakments...

February 27, 2024

LexDeepmind Technologies Ltd

Google DeepMind: drug developers seek a structural advantage from AI Premium

...Dr Google gets a bad rap. Researching symptoms online makes cyberchondriacs sick with worry....

September 19, 2023

Due Diligence

SoftBank’s real life problems in 2024 Premium

...Carlyle has named its head of impact Megan Starr to a new role as global head of corporate affairs, overseeing communications, government affairs and sustainability....

January 9, 2024

HTSI

Can you change your health fate?

...A few months before meeting Hooke’s team leader, Dr David Porter, I’d been told by an orthopaedic surgeon that I’d probably need a total knee replacement within four years....

November 29, 2023

FT Live

Global Pharma and Biotech Summit

Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world

The Big Read

Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?

...He has recently completed a course of chemotherapy and is awaiting further results. Dr Shukla says her experience testing the firefighters provoked mixed emotions....

May 17, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Struck by the power of the simple invention

...“I was really taken aback,” Dr Dilip Mahalanabis recalled of arriving at Bangaon’s city hospital in 1971. Bangaon is now on the border between India and Bangladesh....

November 18, 2022

Pharmaceuticals sector

Swedish scientist behind Alzheimer’s drug has big ambitions

...It was Lannfelt’s discovery in the early 1990s of a mutation in the gene responsible for amyloid beta that helped establish a link between sticky plaques and Alzheimer’s....

December 2, 2022

Ask Adeela

How can I get superhero skin?

...moisture-retaining) hyaluronic acid are the bricks and mortar of the skin… Superhero CollagenSuperpower Superglue for skin cell layers Collagen comes from the Greek “kolla”, for glue, and the French “gène...

September 6, 2022

Coronavirus treatment

Scientists identify genetic factors behind severe Covid

...Dr Kenneth Baillie, a critical care consultant from the University of Edinburgh who led the study, said the results helped “explain why some people develop life-threatening Covid-19, while others get no...

March 7, 2022

ReviewTelevision

‘House of the Dragon’ — orgies, gore and family feuds in ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel

...For those who know Smith primarily from Dr Who, this may be something of a mental leap; in one scene, only a gauzy scarf stands between us and the good Doctor’s penis....

August 19, 2022

Coronavirus

England’s public health body investigates new offshoot of Omicron

...targets — the S gene....

January 21, 2022

HTSI

The moment that changed everything for me…

...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....

May 2, 2022

Genomics

Scientists use genomic sequencing to pinpoint cause of rare diseases

...Dr Richard Scott, chief medical officer at Genomics England, said the study showed how genomic diagnostics can improve outcomes for patients with rare diseases as previously a diagnosis often involved “multiple...

November 10, 2021

FT Live

FTWeekend Festival

Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

FT Magazine

The secret life of fungi is weirder and wilder than you can imagine

...Dr Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia....

April 8, 2022

The Big Read

Genetic engineering: why some fear the next pandemic could be lab-made

...In 2013, Kawaoka’s team was given a further grant to manipulate the genes of both influenza and Ebola viruses to see whether any previously uncharacterised genes helped contribute to their spread....

November 17, 2021

Coronavirus treatment

Kent coronavirus variant does not cause more severe disease, studies show

...Previous research had used a surrogate marker for the B.1.1.7 variant called S-gene target failure, which only shows up on some PCR tests....

April 12, 2021

Covid-19 vaccines

Rare blood clots from AstraZeneca vaccine mostly affect younger people

...“No effective medicine or vaccine is without risk,” said Dr June Raine, MHRA chief executive....

April 29, 2021

Nobel prizes

Two women share Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing discoveries

...Scientists denounced Dr He’s human experimentation because it risked passing on unintended changes to future generations....

October 7, 2020

Special ReportFT Health: Cell Therapies

‘Living medicines’ promise to transform clinical trials

...Gene and cell therapy clinical trials also bring tests and cures closer together. “A lot of the trials are becoming the treatment,” says Dr Hong....

September 15, 2020

The Weekend Essay

How viruses have shaped the world

...Olivia Judson is the author of ‘Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation’ (Vintage)....

December 31, 2020

Person in the News

Professors Charpentier and Doudna, a dynamic Nobel laureate duo

...Eric Lander, director of the Broad and a champion of Prof Zhang’s work, sent the laureates a gracious message: “Huge congratulations to Drs Charpentier and Doudna . . ....

October 9, 2020

Tanzania

Tanzania looks to divine providence as government shuns Covid vaccines

...Dr Ahmed Kalebi, a pathologist and lecturer at the University of Nairobi in neighbouring Kenya, said the spread of the coronavirus from China showed new pathogens would quickly ricochet around the world....

February 19, 2021

News in-depthThe Big Read

Inside the hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine: how BioNTech made the breakthrough

...He hopes that as with the discovery of gene-editing tool Crispr, “there will be an extreme push for the technology”....

November 13, 2020

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