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...The University of Oxford spinout is pushing genetic testing beyond the search for individual genes, looking at how combinations of genes increase people’s likelihood of developing diseases such as cancer...
...She explains how the discovery in 1993 that a mutation in a single gene could double the worm’s lifespan gave new hope — and credibility — to anti-ageing research....
...May 29 to July 12; further information and tickets here ‘La Bayadère’, Teatro alla Scala Rudolf Nureyev’s version of Marius Petipa’s ballet returns to the Scala after its last stint here in 2021, in a...
...Influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis has urged investors to vote against the reappointment of the chief executive and chair of Illumina, the world’s largest gene sequencing company, saying the pair have...
...In a secure research environment like this, it’s permissible to create plants with genetic modification and Schornack had grown tiny tobacco plants containing the three genes that together make beetroot...
...The classic example was John F Kennedy’s insistence that his advisers explore solutions to the Cuban missile crisis other than the bombing campaign his generals wanted....
...Central bankers are not, as a source of the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles put it, the sort of people who get up in the morning and think “f*** it, I’m going to do something crazy today.”...
...Rival start-up Rivian has already launched its own electric pick-up, and Ford is set to launch an electric version of its F-150 in the spring....
...Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Rudolf Nureyev dropped by and became friends. Nureyev visited for dinner on several occasions....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...On the evening of September 29 1913, Rudolf Diesel died in mysterious circumstances, apparently jumping from a ferry crossing the North Sea....
...While he says that his mother was more of a risk-taker than his father, he clearly got the gene from both parents. He made extra money as a young man by betting in bowling alleys — on himself....
...“But don’t f***ing kid yourself. Just because someone tears their jeans just so and doesn’t want to be seen driving around in a Rolls-Royce doesn’t mean they don’t like that....
...Gene Kranz, flight director of the ill-starred Apollo 13 mission, became known for the axiom “failure is not an option” after he urged his team to find a way to save the crew....
...Three times f*** all.” For Faragher, this is an inexcusable lapse....
...However, the truly outstanding contributions belong to 20th century observers such as F Scott Fitzgerald, Dalton Trumbo, Louis Adamic and Aldous Huxley....
...Those words subtitled the first volume of Zachary Leader’s stupendous biography: all told, a 1,500-page epic whose concluding half now thoroughly disproves F Scott Fitzgerald’s axiom that American lives...
...After the fire, Gene Kranz, Nasa’s flight director, instructed his staff to write a phrase on their blackboards: “Tough and Competent”....
...The series A financing is led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Arch Venture Partners. Crispr previously required scientists to cut DNA, delete or insert genes and then repair the break....
...(The Conversation) Gene genius A new book tells the story of the Crispr gene-editing project from the point of view of one of the scientific trio credited with its application....
...Sydney Guilaroff, that’s G-U-I-L-A-R-O-F-F” — she has done a lot of this spelling out (I’ve spared you) although politely corrected more than once that we’re doing radio not print — “made our hair look great...
...In 1996, John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president, chose Cumberland Island as the location for his wedding to Carolyn Bessette....
...He associated with luminaries such as Martin Luther King, Robert F Kennedy and the actress Jane Fonda, to whom he was married for nearly 20 years....
...It’s not f***ing fair,” he says. “But I don’t want to talk about it. I’m trying to live my own life.”...
...Richards puts it down to his Armenian carpet-dealer grandfather: “It’s in the genes.”...
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