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...This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘How a big biotech’s start-up gamble went wrong’ Michela TinderaAbout three years ago, a biotech company called Illumina decided to make...
...Illumina, the world’s biggest gene sequencing company, announced plans to buy cancer detection start-up Grail for $8bn while the biotech boom was in full swing....
...Volz’s gamble has come good: he and his collaborators have produced the first apple designed to be grown in very hot weather....
...Sometimes science needs to gamble on the paths not yet taken in order to progress, especially when well-trodden routes are not leading to promising new pastures....
...Gedan said: “Bolivia is a gamble . . . but global demand is growing so fast that hope springs eternal that Bolivia will get its act together eventually.”Additional reporting by Harry Dempsey...
...The pound fell to a 37-year low against the dollar, as investors took fright at the cost of the chancellor’s “radical economic gamble”....
...In its favour, genes that make amyloid more “sticky” are implicated in hereditary Alzheimer’s, which accounts for around 1 per cent of cases....
...Two decades ago, HSBC made a bold gamble to recapitalise an ailing Chinese insurance firm, Ping An....
...Garage scientists’ DNA gamble The growing accessibility of gene-editing tools has led to an explosion of unchecked experimentation in biological self-improvement in recent years....
...For the Buccaneers’ owners — the Glazer family — it vindicated their decision to gamble $50m on the ageing quarterback a decade after buying the franchise....
...Will the gamble be worth it? AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot reflects on Pfizer's attempted takeover of his company....
...Negative emissions technologies are a “high-stakes gamble”, Anderson and Peters wrote in their Science article....
...But having more than £30bn at his disposal, writing some large cheques to back a handful of moon-shot bets seemed a gamble worth taking....
...Like Brexit, it was a high-risk gamble with utterly unpredictable consequences....
...That gamble paid off. Advocates of personalised medicine say these kinds of narrowly targeted drugs, tied to clear genetic or chemical markers, are the future....
...Synthetic biology — the creation of bespoke life forms by sewing together specially selected genes — will bring its own challenges....
...“It signals a change in the kind of company Apple is,” said Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray, long one of the most bullish analysts on the company....
...One reason may be that we see passing on our genes as a biological imperative. Another might be our allegiance to some religion that tells us to be fruitful and multiply....
...Mrs Rinehart, in contrast, is making the biggest gamble of her career....
...“The most obvious change is loss of pigmentation, as we see more grey hairs over time,” says Frauke Neuser, principal scientist at Procter & Gamble Pantene....
...You take a gamble on what’s not an unreasonable sum.”...
...Hürriyet Daily News Yam yesterday, yam today, The Economist The genetics gamble: search for that ‘perfect’ gene, The Economic Times Nigeria’s embarassing climbdown, The Economist...
...Is that a gamble countries should be taking at this stage?”...
...It is those lucky few that survive and pass on genes to the next generation.”...
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