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...In 1953, Watson and Crick, famed publishers of its double helix structure, called it the secret of life — as though “life itself somehow inheres in the DNA molecule”, Ball complains, like a latter-day soul...
...For example, Carl Icahn, a veteran activist investor who last year won a board seat for one of his nominees at gene-sequencing group Illumina in the first significant proxy battle to play out under the new...
...Competing teams, armed with slightly different methods, have been chasing gene-editing therapies for the same diseases, such as sickle-cell disease and Duchenne muscular dystrophy....
...than those with better genes....
...This means there is no selection pressure on genes associated with conditions that show up in later life, such as Alzheimer’s disease....
...Growing up in Hawaii, Doudna got a taste for the scientific hunt when she picked up a copy of The Double Helix by James Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA....
...s pioneering development of gene sequencing technology in the 1970s....
...Rather than using mRNA, the Oxford vaccine attaches the coronavirus spike protein genes used to provoke the immune response to a harmless adenovirus, which carries them into human cells....
...He chose biochemistry, inspired by an article he’d read about James Watson and Francis Crick and their discovery of the structure of DNA in a magazine at his primary school library....
...Picks include The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W Twitty and Faces in the Crowd, a novel by Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli that follows a...
...James Watson, the 90-year-old DNA pioneer, recently restated his belief that blacks are cognitively inferior to whites....
...He believes there’s an evolutionary reason for this: cavemen who paid attention to warnings of sabre-toothed tigers in the area survived to pass on their genes whereas those who looked only for good news...
...Doudna’s style, more contemplative than Watson or Venter, is just as effective at describing the increasingly frantic pace of life in the lab, as researchers realise that epoch-making discoveries are in...
...In 2015, 23andMe received limited FDA authorisation to tell customers if they carried genes for diseases that could be passed on to their children, and identify genes for certain rare diseases....
...(Journal of Experimental Medicine) Genetics and health A large study of British and American genes examines their influence on the health of subsequent generations....
...King’s “Merry Christmas Baby” and Clare Teal’s voice soared over mighty big-band brass on Gene Krupa’s “Let Me Off Uptown” — trumpeter Mike Lovatt’s high-note antics provided a fitting climax....
...It found physical form via James Watson and Francis Crick (and the lesser-credited Rosalind Franklin), who built the first model of DNA as a double-helix structure in their Cambridge labs in 1953....
...Recent DNA analysis shows traces of Tennessee Walking, American Quarter, Arabian and Paso Fino genes. However, concerns have been raised about the horses’ impact on the local ecosystem....
...Mukherjee’s account of the race to fill these blanks — from the revelation by Francis Crick and James Watson of DNA’s “twisted ladder” structure in 1953 to the mapping of the human genome in the 1990s —...
...On his mother’s side, 10 out of 14 siblings had developed Alzheimer’s at about the age of 50, having inherited a rare mutation in the Presenilin-2 gene....
...history of genetics that takes us from the pioneering work of Gregor Mendel through early 20th century eugenics, the Watson-Crick discovery of DNA and on to the current “gene editing” revolution....
...Biologists hypothesised that units labelled “genes” were the agents of this inheritance, but no one knew what genes looked like or how they operated....
...She is a Watson lacking a Holmes and her fellow narrators are equally unreliable....
...The cost of gene sequencing has fallen to $1,000 a time, Mr Darnell says, making it no longer “the rate-limiting factor” in how many patients can be analysed....
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