Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Dives Into Biotechnology – The Motley Fool
The legendary holding company run by Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and a growing team of younger tech-savvy asset managers recently unveiled its first biotechnology investment. The latest holdings disclosure form filed by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B)...
The paradox of dormancy: Why sleep when you can eat?
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Why do predators sometimes lay dormant eggs — eggs which...
White Biotechnology Market Trends, Future Prospects and Key Players – openPR
White Biotechnology
The Report covers epidemiology of White Biotechnology from 2020 to 2027 separated by Seven Major Regions facilitate with market drivers, market barriers and unmet medical needs of this indication. The Report gives...
Base Editing Promise in Treating a Mouse Model of Progeria
BANFF, CANADA — During her opening State-of-the-Union-style address at a genome engineering conference in the Canadian Rocky Mountains* last Sunday, CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna, PhD, declared that “precision editing of any genome is in...
Dartmouth’s Chenfeng Ke wins Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize
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HANOVER, N.H. – February 14, 2020 – Chenfeng Ke, an assistant professor of chemistry at Dartmouth, has been awarded the 2020 Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry.
The prize, awarded...
Moscow’s Subway Microbiome Looks Similar to that of New York’s
ITMO University researchers in Russia recently looked into the microbiome of the Moscow subway and discovered that the bacterial world of the Russian capital’s subway system might be similar to that of New York’s...
Text messaging helps improve access to prenatal health information, study finds
Pregnant urban African American and immigrant Afro-Caribbean women are more likely to receive the prenatal health information they need if they are given access to mhealth apps like Text4baby. That is the finding of...
Cocoa Drink Aids Walking in People with Peripheral Artery Disease
A regular drink of cocoa may help to improve walking performance and muscle health in people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to the results of a small, randomized Phase II clinical trial carried...
Ugandan teachers trained in agricultural biotechnology – Alliance for Science
In a bid to popularize technology in local schools, the Uganda Biosciences Information Center (UBIC) has begun training teachers and textbook authors in modern agricultural biotechnology.
UBIC offered its first training to 27 teachers and...
Timing of brain cell death uncovers a new target for Alzheimer’s treatment
Credit: Department of Neuropathology,
Medical Research Institute and Center for Brain Integration Research,
TMDU
Researchers led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University find that neuronal necrosis occurs much earlier...
