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...Steven Runo, a molecular biologist from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, is using Crispr to mimic these useful mutations to create resilient seeds, with field trials planned for this year....
...John nods in agreement: “It’s in the Whitaker genes. Jack has inherited the determination to win,” he says....
...The company said chief technology officer Alex Aravanis was leaving the company in the latest in a series of high-profile executive departures from the world’s biggest gene-sequencing company....
...The company said chief technology officer Alex Aravanis is leaving the company in the latest in a series of high-profile executive departures from the world’s biggest gene sequencing company....
...US law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has named Steven Green, Randall Jackson and Meng Lu as new partners....
...Data visualisation by Steven Bernard This article has been amended since original publication to correct the size of Blackwells’ stake in Disney...
...I heard about Mahalanabis’s death from Steven Johnson, the author of Extra Life....
...Instead, the folks in charge — the Hugo Gene Nomenclature Committee — decided to change the names of the genes in question. The decision is understandable....
...The two Democrats then met again with Steven Mnuchin, US Treasury secretary, and Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, before the talks ended on Friday afternoon....
...Steven Lockley, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is a leading authority in circadian science who advises Nasa astronauts preparing for space travel as a private consultant....
...Predictions from the 1990s that yuppie parents would soon implant genes for intelligence or musical talent in their unborn children seemed plausible in a decade filled with discoveries of the gene for X....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Steven Pinker (“The world after tomorrow”, Life & Arts, December 28) refers to the “approaching asteroid” of climate change....
...Firmly in the neo-optimist school of commentators, alongside the likes of Steven Pinker and the late Hans Rosling, Ridley argues that innovation is the unacknowledged “infinite improbability drive” (of the...
...One pioneering Crispr trial edits genes in immune cells to make them fight cancers (multiple myeloma and sarcoma) more effectively....
...The sole survivor, an orphaned child, is adopted by childless couple Gene and Molly Myers....
...(FT) Geneticists back DNA-editing ban Experts are calling for a global moratorium on editing human genes that can be passed down generations, after a Chinese scientist claimed he edited the genes of twin...
...And as a Hollywood A-list that included filmmakers Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams, as well as the actress Reese Witherspoon gathered at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters, the comparisons with the...
...As Apple prepares to unveil a streaming service with over $1bn of new television shows and films from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams, it is looking for viewers well beyond the...
...Gene Levoff was himself responsible for policing insider trading within Apple, according to the SEC, overseeing a team of as many as 30 attorneys and paralegals....
...One company that caught his eye was US biomass conversion group Xyleco, whose board included former US secretary of state George Shultz and former US energy secretary Steven Chu....
...Doing so required swimming against the scientific current of the time, which was epitomised by works such as Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene(1976)....
...With those problems more or less solved (read Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now for further details), we will soon be obsessing about immortality, divinity and bliss....
...He urged people to put their trust in humanity, impelled towards good by a “selfish gene” that can also engender altruism, while self-replicating cultural traits called “memes” leap from person to person...
...He said of Mr Trump: He’s got perfect genes. He has incredible energy and he’s unbelievably healthy....
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