Sentences with phrase «american tech billionaire»

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Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.