She said they were currently funding research into drugs that mimic the action of nerve growth factor (NGF), the name given to the gene therapy involving stimulating cell function.

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At 14 he had read all of Shakespeare and changed his name to Gore, rather than Gene, because it sounded literary and fine.

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The breakthrough came with the discovery that the gene that controls genetic exchange, which goes by the prosaic name of PR-domain containing 9, or Prdm9, is also implicated in generating reproductive incompatibility between different members of the same species.

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