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...“The use of gene edited, disease resistant chickens in farming would be an exciting advance,” Wood said, adding that a much larger sample would be needed to successfully demonstrate that the intervention...
...One touted explanation for this enigma is the “grandmother hypothesis”: that older women help to look after grandchildren, which hones the chances of their own genes being passed on....
...“[Approximately] 40 per cent of the industry disappeared over the first two years of the FSA process,” says Marika Graham-Woods, executive director of the CTA. “They have failed the entire industry.”...
...SoftBank’s IRL troubles Activist investors change their tactics The younger Orszag battles FTI IRL: Masa Son’s real life problems Last year provided faint relief for investors like Tiger Global and Cathie Wood...
...The decision by the San Diego-based maker of gene-sequencing machines comes after an order by Brussels in October to divest the unit as well as a separate lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission to block...
...Accsys makes “accoya acetylated wood”. Essentially it treats soft wood with a chemical akin to strong vinegar that protects the wood from rotting when wet, extending its lifespan by decades....
...They either rejoice or worry about AI refashioning our world, whether their lens is gene editing, geopolitics, climate — or any other facet of life....
...Gene Munster, portfolio manager at Deepwater Asset Management, said this part of the demo blew him away. “3D memories are going to change how we remember things,” he said....
...It believes secular trends including the green revolution, gene sequencing and the further digitisation of the economy will continue to drive investment opportunities....
...We install ourselves at a dining table in a wood-panelled room lined with framed antique prints of fish....
...The pioneering US rockabilly guitarist Gene Vincent was an important influence....
...Wood said “we have already seen functional cures for three blood-related diseases” in the gene editing space....
...Take AQR Capital Management, the investment group led by Captain America fan, former Gene Fama protégé and full-time angry Twitter person Clifford Asness....
...Growth bulls also say that the technological revolution has barely scratched the surface of huge swaths of the global economy, such as energy, gene sequencing and synthetic biology....
...Invitae and Crispr Therapeutics are dealing in gene-testing tech that is promising but not fully mainstream....
...“It is very deep in our genes....
...The striking thing is that, out of 50 stocks, all but one — Intellia Therapeutics, which develops medicine using Crispr gene-editing technology — is down since last February....
...’s breathless promotion of gene editing should worry us all, argues David Crow in this column....
...As the chief executive of Ark Investment Management, Cathie Wood, noted in a recent interview, such innovations, which include autonomous mobility, blockchain, gene editing, adaptive robots and neural networks...
...The result has been called, by Simard and others, the Wood Wide Web....
...Since Darwin, biologists have always maintained that survival is about the selfish gene. Simard’s work upends that. Trees are not solitary....
...The government announced today it would ease regulations on the gene-editing of crops in a post-Brexit departure from EU rules....
...Oxford Nanopore, the gene sequencing specialist, revealed that Oracle had come in as a cornerstone investor ahead of its London Stock Exchange float....
...These involve 14 technologies including gene therapies, 3D printing, cloud computing, big data analytics, and cryptocurrencies....
...Mr Wood said the Adrestia agreement was the latest example of GSK investing heavily in functional genomics, the study of how genes interact to control the functioning of the human body....
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