Branson's stake is valued at £400m but he is also in line for another £250m in exit fees plus income from licensing his Virgin brand to Nationwide for up to six years.
In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins—essential building blocks of life—to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems, and diagnostic tools.
For The Madera TribuneThis photograph of Spring Valley School in O’Neals was taken in 1894, one year after Victor Adams was hanged from a tree just up the road from the school. His body was left hanging for two days, and youngsters walking to school no doubt contemplated the consequences of breaking the law.Madera County has generally been a law-abiding place. Most of the time, law and order has prevailed. Every once in a while, however, the people have taken things in their own hands by using...
On the first day of his criminal fraud trial in New York, former President Donald Trump requested that the judge not hold court proceedings on May 17 -- the day of his youngest son's high school graduation. The judge did not rule on the request, saying he preferred to wait to see how the trial unfolds.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt probably has become a pretty unpopular guy among teenagers over the last few weeks. His new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” essentially calls for a revolution in how parents administer smartphones and social media to their teens. Put simply, Haidt writes that kids should have little to no access to either until they turn 16. While some have questioned the science behind Haidt’s...
Residents can have their say about local judges eligible for re-election in the 20th Judicial District at a public hearing set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in Courtroom F at the Boulder County Justice Center, 1777 Sixth St.
To kick off the 100-day countdown to the Summer Games in Paris, athletes from Team USA were asked to guess which sport a mime was performing.
(The Center Square) - A ruling that declared state-funded allotments for the correspondence programs has some confused as to what it means for Alaska's more than 24,000 homeschooled children. Gov. Mike Dunleavy crafted the law as a constitutional amendment while serving as a state senator in 2013. That measure failed and he reintroduced it as a bill in 2014 that passed and was signed into law. The bill allows families to receive up to $4,500 in state funds for...
BATON ROUGE - Researchers at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine have made a breakthrough in stem cell testing through a new invention.Dr. Mandi Lopez, the Director of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s Laboratory for Equine and Comparative Orthopedic Research, worked with LSU engineering students to create a booster physicians and veterinarians need to treat tendon injuries more effectively.“We created a kind of one-stop-shop device,” Lopez said.Dr. Lopez says stem...
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that President Joe Biden can shut down the border unilaterally and should by doing what President Obama did with Title 8. After referencing Biden saying that the administration
Stem cells are the new focal point of the rich and famous with Hollywood A-listers reportedly spending tens of thousands of pounds each year on expensive therapies offered by private longevity clinics which promise to regenerate the ageing body.
When you walk into a financial adviser’s office, you expect them to put your best interests above all else — in the same way a doctor would, rather than, say, a car salesperson. But many people don’t realize that the rules financial professionals must follow vary, depending on where they work and what products they’re selling. One of those federal regulations, which governs retirement plans, was just tightened: The Biden administration announced new rules Tuesday that will require more...