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Robin McKie

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Robin McKie is science editor for the Observer
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Craig Venter obituary

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Craig Venter obituary

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By Robin McKie
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At the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February 2001, the geneticist Craig Venter performed a remarkable piece of scientific barnstorming. Human beings possess far fewer genes than science had ever realised, he announced. We have about 30,000, far lower than previous estimates of 100,000. Such lack of heritable material showed people are not prisoners of their genes but are shaped primarily by environmental influences, he added.
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Lord Hunt of Chesterton obituary

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On 1 November 1965, three giant cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire collapsed during a gale. No one was killed but the incident triggered widespread alarm. The towers had been built to withstand far greater wind forces but had nevertheless disintegrated. Why had this occurred and what other buildings were at risk across the UK? To find the answer, the Central Electricity Generating Board asked Julian Hunt, a young British engineer on its research staff, to investigate.
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