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...Brussels has accused Illumina of using “delay tactics” to prevent a speedy ruling on whether the world’s biggest gene sequencing company should be forced to divest cancer test developer Grail....
...Andrew Teno, Icahn’s nominee for a board seat at the world’s biggest gene sequencing company, won a shareholder vote at the company’s annual meeting on Thursday, while Thompson was unseated....
...Carl Icahn secured a much-needed victory yesterday when shareholders of Illumina backed his nomination to be chair of the world’s biggest gene sequencing company....
...Job moves Illumina chief executive Francis deSouza has resigned following a bruising proxy battle with activist investor Carl Icahn over the gene sequencing group’s future....
...People with the gene ApoE4 appear particularly vulnerable....
...Two other Icahn nominees failed to win enough votes, paving the way for Illumina boss Francis deSouza and director Robert Epstein to be re-elected....
...; Plus, the FT’s Alphaville editor, Izabella Kaminska, talks about how the availability of gene-editing tools such as Crispr has led to an explosion of unchecked DIY experiments and dangers associated with...
...This follows the arrest of the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein....
...He has a copy of The Sports Gene by David Epstein, which he often uses as a teaching aid and which heavily features genetics research conducted by him....
...“It’s definitely cheaper,” says Andrea Epstein of the patient advocacy group Global Genes. “It’s at least half what an insurer would be paying [for diagnostics that do not use sequencing],” she says....
...“The theme that’s coming out of exercise genetics is that they are finding trainability genes,” says David Epstein, a former athlete and author of The Sports Gene ....
...The number of new cases of Hodgkin lymphoma is slightly lower, at about 1,900 a year; about half of these occur in people who have previously contracted Epstein-Barr virus, the infection that causes glandular...
...: What Makes the Perfect Athlete by David Epstein (Yellow Jersey) ● Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy: A Journey to the Heart of Cricket’s Underworld by Ed Hawkins (Bloomsbury) ● I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic by Zlatan...
...The Sports Gene: What Makes the Perfect Athlete, by David Epstein, Yellow Jersey Press, RRP£16.99/Current, RRP$26.95 This subtle, enthralling study by the Sports Illustrated writer avoids making excessive...
...Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago; the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; and a visiting law professor at New...
...“It’s hardly surprising – genes will out – her grandfather is Lucien (Freud) and her great-grandfather Jacob Epstein.”...
...But when the infringers become competitors, as with the BRAC genes, then the property rights become more critical....
...The widely prevalent Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, has also been linked to rare cancers such as Burkitt’s lymphoma....
...This article further debates Richard Epstein’s The Goldilocks patent dilemma How patently absurd? Richard Epstein offers me an irresistible invitation....
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