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...Gene Gau sat with his laptop at the end of a long table in Herman Miller’s store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District one afternoon this week....
...Jamie SmythA scientist, Meredith Halks-Miller, was looking at prenatal tests, and she was doing gene sequencing in these....
...Gene-editing technologies have become more precise and vastly cheaper, making it easier than ever to “reprogramme” organisms....
...The scientific breakthrough that led to the development of Galleri occurred a decade ago when Meredith Halks-Miller, a former laboratory director at gene-sequencing company Illumina, spotted abnormal DNA...
...“Neutrality is in our books and in our genes, but that doesn’t mean we mustn’t adapt,” says Borer. “We have to.”...
...Science round-up Scientists warned a global conference on human genome editing that urgent action was needed to cut the cost of gene treatments for once incurable diseases....
...The search for alternatives has accelerated because innovative therapies, based on human genes and cells or even personalised for patients, may not work in animals at all....
...BioNTech’s BNT162 is a genetic vaccine that injects coronavirus genes in the form of RNA, or Ribonucleic acid, into human cells. Valneva’s VLA2001 is an inactivated form of the whole coronavirus....
...The Omicron variant can be detected by proxy on routine PCR tests, as it misses a gene — S — that Alpha, a previous variant, also lacks. Genomic sequencing is needed to confirm its presence....
...Others are using the gene-editing tool Crispr to create faster and more accurate tests....
...Lilah RaptopoulosYou can read the piece that Hannah and Clive wrote about this with Joe Miller on FT.com. I’ve link to it in the show notes. That’s the show this week....
.../ From Marcus H Miller, Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick, Coventry, Warwickshire, UK...
...He hopes that as with the discovery of gene-editing tool Crispr, “there will be an extreme push for the technology”....
...The company added that it would be ready to ramp up production of the pre-fab facilities, which are already used by cell and gene therapy firms in Germany and China....
...“Messenger RNA” vaccines use the virus’s own genes to instruct the human body to make proteins that will provoke an immune response....
...The 200th anniversary of the death of Keats in marked by Lucasta Miller in Keats (Jonathan Cape, February), a “brief life in nine poems and one epitaph”....
...Miller’s schooldays also make for bracing reading....
...“If Trump runs against a political retread like Biden, Warren or Sanders, he crushes them,” said Mr Miller....
...Dr Bruce Miller, a San Francisco psychiatrist who studies how dementia or injury can lead people to acquire savant abilities, says: “This research is not well supported financially.”...
...Steve Miller, chief medical officer at Express Scripts, said: “For one-time therapies like Luxturna, we believe non-traditional payment and distribution models are needed.”...
...His credits range from Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin to David Sanborn and Marcus Miller....
...“Simply having a great test is not enough,” says Vince Miller, chief medical officer of Foundation Medicine. “Because sometimes doctors don’t know what they’re sitting on....
...For the Millers, a background in the private sector helped them as they built up their group. “In our case, it worked in our favour that we didn’t know much about non-profits,” says Ms Miller....
...“We used very strict conditions to keep the accuracy high, since computation is inexpensive but [lab] experiments are costly,” says Webb Miller of Penn State, the project co-leader....
...Hassell makes this almost as much Biff’s tragedy as his father’s, showing how he has inherited Willy’s bullheaded pride while Sam Marks as brother Happy got the blarney gene....
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