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...This promises to offer insights into how mutations of known genes can cause medical problems....
...Research using Biobank data has already helped identify genes offering protection against obesity and diabetes, as well as others that raise risks of heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer....
...The UK has become the first country to approve a therapy based on Crispr gene editing....
...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....
...Gene Sperling, who served as director of the National Economic Council for Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, had also been considered as a possible candidate for the job....
...Mike Collins, senior portfolio manager at PGIM Fixed Income, warned that another sharp rise in Treasury yields could test their stance, however....
...“At some point it may be possible to measure people’s genetic risk score for susceptibility to Covid,” said Prof Rory Collins, chief executive of UK Biobank, which has several projects to match genetic data...
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...(FT, BBC) Lunch with the FT Jennifer Doudna co-discovered Crispr, the revolutionary gene-editing technology that promises to empower humans to control our own genome....
...Years later, on the eve of a global gene-editing summit in Hong Kong, he resurfaces to announce he has created the world’s first gene-edited babies....
...Horizon Discovery half-year results One UK company that may see only upside from an international move is small gene editing bioscience group Horizon Discovery....
...In the UK the East London Genes and Health study is acquiring data from 100,000 people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin....
...“UK Biobank has amassed an enormous amount of securely stored health, lifestyle, medical and biological data,” said Sir Rory Collins, Biobank’s leader....
...(Modern Healthcare) Gene editing An NPR reporter is the first to go inside the labs where scientists are editing DNA in human embryos....
...Joan Collins said she had been a “wonderfully warm friend and colleague”....
...She is the author of six books, among them The Apartheid of Sex, Unzipped Genes and Virtually Human: The Promise — and the Peril — of Digital Immortality....
...neil.collins@ft.com...
...But access to Access was confined to hours when pits were closed, to protect the value of seats on the floor, Mr Collins says....
...As with DMGT, another successful family-controlled business (thrown out of the FTSE indices for non-compliance), it pays to pick your gene pool with care....
...Also in attendance was Gene Jones, whose husband Jerry owns the Dallas Cowboys football team....
...If cities have genes, as Mike Emmerich suggests, then Manchester’s post-industrial emergence is something of a rebirth....
...Frank Collins, one of the project’s principal investigators, sees many uses for the data....
...There are no single genes that make you run fast or hit a ball well. However, genetics does help to explain sporting success....
...Only one of the major players failed to get through: Kim Collins did not turn up....
...(WSJ) Roche/ Illumina bid: Roche Holding on Monday extended its $5.7bn cash bid for U.S. gene decoder Illumina for a second time....
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