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«The biggest thing we heard from customers was that their voice and conferencing software was not easy to use, clunky, and expensive and no one tool works for all tasks,» Gene Farrell, AWS vice president of enterprise applications tells Fortune.

Users of Apple mobile devices also account for about 60 % of all mobile web traffic in the United States, compared to 33 per cent for Android devices, according Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

To illustrate how it works in practice, Koenig offers the example of a professional hockey player whose profile shows that he has gene variants found in people who respond rapidly to lactic - acid threshold training.

The companies» R&D will focus on on a gene mutation present in a wide swath of patients with ALS, a degenerative nervous system disease that eats away at nerve cells and weakens muscles.

Also found in the water bear genome were more copies of an anti-oxidant enzyme and a DNA repair gene than in any other animal.

Testing aside, it is completely possible to not be a carrier of the gene and still love to travel and / or exhibit strong curiosity.»

In an effort to find answers to some of those questions, researchers recently identified the so - called «wanderlust gene» (DRD4 - 7R, to be exact), which is present in about 20 percent of humans.

Surely I possess the gene, I thought to myself after mailing the package.

Since I surround myself with adventurous people and feed my brain with a lot of curious indulgences, it only makes sense that I like to travel often, even though I don't possess the sexy - sounding «wanderlust gene.»

It was widely reported yesterday that former CEO of Nabors Industries Ltd., Gene Isenberg, will be the recipient of a $ 100 million severance payment.

The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee wrote about in Fortune's year - end Investor's Guide.

Approved treatments included gene therapies and the first new drugs for rare diseases in many years.

In a widely publicized privacy lawsuit this year, a Florida jury awarded Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, $ 140 million in damages from Gawker for publishing a sex tape in 2013 in which the former wrestler was featured.

Today, there are a fair number of gene - silencing drugs in late - stage development and dozens of companies working in the space — and it feels like we could be close to a tipping point.

As a working journalist and travel columnist, I was recently tested for this gene.

Pfizer, Sangamo team up to create ALS gene therapy.

Gene Siciliano talks about what entrepreneurs need to know about their finances in order to build a sustainable business.

And in the recent randomized study — which was designed to assess the safety and tolerability of various doses in volunteers from Canada, Germany, and the UK — IONIS - HTTRx appeared to substantially block the gene's pernicious message from getting through.

I love the story and I just... And I fortunately had Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman and a lot of great performers in the picture.

U.S. drug giant Pfizer and California - based biotech Sangamo Therapeutics are partnering to develop a gene therapy to treat ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Gene therapy has been on a roll in the past year, with the FDA approving Spark Therapeutics» landmark gene therapy for an inherited form of blindness in December.

This gene is said to cause a strong desire, if not impulse, to wander, travel and explore the world.

With Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman I didn't rehearse because they... I got halfway through a rehearsal on the first day and I saw that it was going so good I said we better shoot this just in case they couldn't get it the second time.

Basketball Invented in the 1950s by Indiana legends Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, popular basketball games are played in college divisions built on hope and excitement, and professional leagues built on Nike and the Lakers.

Shah's argument about «an inferior competitive landscape» makes no sense, however, although it's of a piece with other Tesla mega-bulls, such as Loup Ventures» Gene Munster, who seems to think that Tesla can basically sell 11 million cars in the US alone.

Gene therapy has the potential to save lives, but the pool of people who suffer from the orphan diseases, or conditions that pharmaceutical companies have historically ignored, is relatively small.

While it takes time for gene therapies to be tested, trialed, and possibly approved by the FDA, genetics startups like Spark, AveXis, Caribou Biosciences, Editas, and Audentes have been on the road a while.

Whether you think Zayner is a prophet or a crackpot, the point is that you should get ready for gene editing and gene therapy coming to a hospital near you.

Just this year, over 50 U.S. genetics and gene therapy startups raised at least $ 1 million to support genetics - based treatments, including speeding trails, improving accuracy of tests, and providing better platforms.

Their DRAGEN data platform offers a dedicated processing environment tuned to the massive data analysis needed for gene research.

Gene Schriver, executive vice president of No. 2236 on the Inc. 5000, Language Services Associates in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, doesn't speak a lick of French, but it never stops him from effortlessly communicating with foreign business associates, and, at times, cabbies.

In our tests, the Gene Knockout Kit gave us greater than 80 percent knock - out rates for seven targets,» shares Shondra Miller, Ph.D., Director, Center for Advanced Genome Engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, on Synthego's web site.

Right now, the first CRISPR gene therapies are in development, but they are not built on a «standard stack» and require a lot of custom work for each indication - these therapies will be coming into the clinic and hopefully get approved the coming couple years, and after that there could be significantly more investment into standard tools.»

Thanks to developments in gene therapy, that day might not be so far away.

Paul Dabrowski, CEO and co-founder of Synthego, shared with me in email that, «It's possible to imagine a day when gene therapies are safe, effective, easy and affordable for anyone who needs them.

«They're running out of things to drop,» said Gene Munster, a veteran tech analyst and managing partner at Loup Ventures.

CEO Sandy Macrae of Sangamo, the company responsible for the therapy, told AP, «We cut your DNA, open it up, insert a gene, stitch it back up.

AveXis (AVXS) is a gene - therapy company in Bannockburn, Illinois, that went public last year.

• Excision BioTherapeutics, a Philadelphia - based life science company focused on the development and commercialization of advanced gene editing therapeutics for the treatment of life - threatening disease caused by neurotropic viruses, raised $ 10 million in seed funding.

No list of major gene therapy movers would be complete without 23 & Me.

In 2015, the viral «Ice Bucket Challenge» helped fund groundbreaking research that led to the discovery of a gene associated with the disease.

There's better communication,» she told Inc.com in an interview, citing science that shows meditation changes the brain, immune system, and even gene expression.

«We believe the bogey for investors is a 15 percent increase to Apple's total reported capital return number (shares repurchase plus past dividends), which would imply a $ 150 billion headline number, up from $ 130 billion announced last year,» said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, in a recent note.

«A person can always learn something new,» says Gene Brady, director at Search Consulting Network, which specializes in recruiting in the automotive, industrial and automation sectors.

And on Wednesday, in a major milestone for this burgeoning and potentially world - changing industry, the Dutch startup UniQure, developer of the Western world's first approved gene therapy, raised $ 82 million in its initial public offering, Reuters reports.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to Orchard Therapeutics, it said on Thursday, as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

The advice is the opinion of long - time business owner Gene Marks.

Gene therapy is, in essence, a type of biotechnology that replaces mutated genes with healthy ones, reversing the effects of disease or damage.

LONDON, April 12 - GlaxoSmithKline is divesting its rare disease gene therapy drugs to private biotech company Orchard Therapeutics as Chief Executive Emma Walmsley makes good on her promise to prune the drugmaker's pharmaceuticals portfolio.

Gene Munster Senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray, via CNNMoney