Harlen Gene Burns

October 13, 2023

Policymakers convinced holy grail of ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach

...Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna meanwhile called for therapies to be made available for all through increased investment in Crispr technology....

March 22, 2024

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Coronavirus

Omicron case with no known travel link detected in England

...Omicron does not possess one of the three coronavirus gene targets — the S gene — analysed by commercial detection kits, giving epidemiologists an insight into its spread without the need for genomic sequencing...

December 2, 2021

Disrupted Times

Strong US jobs market undermines case for rate cuts

...That’s the thesis explored by John Burn-Murdoch by comparing the published use of terms related to progress, improvement and the future with those related to threats, risks and worries....

January 5, 2024

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC

Scottish Mortgage defends strategy after shares take beating

...While the manager “still believes gene-sequencing is a fundamental building-block for advances in healthcare . . . the company’s execution has been disappointing”....

May 17, 2023

Disrupted Times

Central banks come close to calling time on tightening

...A new artificial intelligence tool from Google DeepMind can help predict whether mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful....

September 22, 2023

FT Live

Global Private Banking Awards 2024

Celebrating excellence in wealth management

The Big Read

Will Apple take a big bite out of the banks?

...“They move at the speed and force of a glacier,” says Gene Munster, managing partner of Deepwater....

April 21, 2023

News in-depthBatteries

Chinese and Russian companies dominate in race to tap Bolivia’s lithium

...Before being told of Ramos’s comments, he told the FT: “The last thing I’m going to do is burn bridges, because who knows what will happen with the six other companies.”...

October 17, 2022

The Henry Mance Interview

Adrian Hill: ‘This is the breakthrough tool — vaccines against malaria’

...He clearly burns with intellectual competitiveness. Hill is more upbeat about gene drives that could kill off the mosquitoes that spread malaria....

August 29, 2022

News in-depthCoronavirus

‘The virus is always searching for its next move’: why mutations worry scientists

...“It’s about the genes, the environment and a degree of luck . . . If you have an ‘advantageous’ mutation but never pass it on, it will never spread,” he said....

November 25, 2021

FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the world’s most brutally beautiful sporting adventures

The power of the dog: an Arctic adventure

...And yet, when she was on the line, she ran with the earnestness her genes demanded. And then there was Ron....

January 17, 2022

FirstFT

FirstFT: Fears about Chinese property developer spook investors

...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....

September 21, 2021

The Weekend Essay

Kazuo Ishiguro and Venki Ramakrishnan: imagining a new humanity

...Gene editing and the pursuit of human perfection VR AI has something in common with gene editing, which is that we’re again in danger of sleepwalking into a future that we don’t really want....

March 26, 2021

The Big Read

Baillie Gifford: can a new generation keep riding the tech boom?

...Tom Slater, 43, who has jointly managed the trust with Anderson since 2015, will take control next year along with deputy manager Lawrence Burns, who is 32....

June 22, 2021

Special ReportFT Health: Cell Therapies

Cell therapy opens up new cure horizons

...Meanwhile, researchers at Stanford University in the US are exploring cell therapies for eye damage of the type caused by chemical burns, severe infections and some immune diseases....

September 15, 2020

FT Live

Global Pharma and Biotech Summit

Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world

LombardKate Burgess

Last orders loom for big indebted pub groups

...But its gene-reading machines have been used to sequence the Sars-Cov-2 virus, helping track its spread. And it has diversified into testing too....

October 13, 2020

Healthcare

Pandemic provokes new wave of funding for healthcare start-ups

...“We had plans for maybe making some additional hires but we put a pause in a few things to make sure that we can expand our burn rate out for at least a year.”...

August 3, 2020

#techFT

Flying cars and Toyota’s Motor City

...Crispr gene-editing set for trials The first humans will have Crispr deployed like a drug inside their bodies this year, as companies embark on a new stage of the gene-editing revolution that could lead...

January 7, 2020

The Aesthete

“When not working on a cure for Covid, I play accordion on the rocks”

...Don’t grab the rope until you need to go up the hill, or you will just burn your hands.”...

July 8, 2020

Genomics

Biotech companies issue first declaration on human gene editing

...No other country has more than two gene editing trials. Jim Burns, chief executive of Casebia Therapeutics, co-chaired ARM’s task force that drew up the declaration....

August 26, 2019

On Wall StreetMatthew Rocco

Tesla’s stock price streak leaves analysts struggling to keep up

...Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures in Minneapolis, wrote a blog post on Tesla’s long-term bull case a month ago, when the stock was about one-third lower....

January 31, 2020

FirstFT

FirstFT: Today’s top stories

...(FT) Crispr gene editing set for trials The first humans will have Crispr deployed like a drug inside their bodies this year, as companies embark on a new stage of the gene-editing revolution that could...

January 7, 2020

LombardMatthew Vincent

Has Neil Woodford’s luck turned? Or is the writing on the wall?

...ReNeuron is burning cash as fast as Reaction Engines burns fuel. But that is surely the point of a fund called Patient Capital....

April 9, 2019

Health

FT Health: Taking the fight to malaria

...(BMJ) Health emergencies Half the world's deaths come from m edical emergencies, such as accidents, falls and burns (22 per cent); heart attacks (17 per cent); lung infections (11 per cent); and strokes...

April 26, 2019

ReviewLife & Arts

Julian Siegel Quartet: Vista — ‘clear-cut moods and meaty discourses’

...As tracks ebb, flow and draw to a peak, Siegel’s assured fluency is underscored by the understated equal-partners support of Oli Hayhurst and Gene Calderazzo on bass and drums....

February 16, 2018

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