How to fix a runway in Antarctica BAM In the coldest place on Earth, workers wage an epic battle with the extreme landscape – aided by specially trained penguin-movers. "It goes from bigger rock at the bottom to smaller rock at the top, to minimise impact on the aircraft," says Gonzalez Rico. Ben Checkley/BAS A spot of snowboarding on the …
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent Marlon Clark Antarctica is a bleak, remote and dark place during the winter, but a handful of people each year brave the conditions to live in almost totally cut off from the rest of the world. "They say it is quicker to get to someone on the …
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Tiny biotech start-up Orchard takes on goliath Glaxo’s $730,000 gene therapy for rare and life-threatening immune illness known as ‘bubble-boy disease’. Orchard, with about 80 employees and no products on the market, plans to sell a competing version that may reach more sick children. Orchard's therapy, called OTL-101, is designed to be frozen, or cryopreserved, so that it can be …
