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Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. is entering the gene-sequencing race with a new portable device that will allow people to analyze DNA on the go.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy said he’ll seek a second term, pledging to focus on fighting unemployment and seeing France through Europe’s financial crisis.
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Four months after I walked into a lab at Harvard University and gave a vial of blood to have my genome sequenced, my search to understand my DNA led me to Mark Sanders, a former Indiana firefighter.
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Jefferies Group Inc. has been trying to spread the risk of a $190 million loan to Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners LLC by offering a syndication deal with an unusual caveat: it defaults if Falcone is indicted.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said those attacking his namesake rule for reducing trading activity in capital markets ignore that higher volumes may actually lead to bigger risk-taking.
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Wall Street’s biggest lobbying group is split over a proposed settlement of state and federal foreclosure probes, after a committee of money managers signaled it opposes terms letting banks push some costs onto bondholders.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., the U.K. company developing a novel gene-sequencing technology, plans to market DNA strand-sequencing products directly to customers this year.
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Former Bank Indonesia Senior Deputy Governor Miranda S. Goeltom said the country’s anti-corruption agency has named her as a suspect in the bribery case involving her election to the post in 2004.
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Newt Gingrich, who won South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary and is gaining support in opinion polls before next week’s Florida primary, got a financial boost yesterday with the announcement that Miriam Adelson, the wife of Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman Sheldon Adelson, had agreed to donate $5 million to a political action committee supporting his candidacy.
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The New York Jets hired former Miami Dolphins assistant Dave DeGuglielmo as their offensive line coach, the team said in a news release.
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