Vivo Capital Appoints New Managing Partners and Partners
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Vivo Capital, LLC, a leading global healthcare investment firm, is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Hongbo Lu, Mr. Jack Bech Nielsen, and Mr. Michael Chang to Managing Partners. The Firm is also promoting Ms. Cinthia Sheu, Chief Operating Officer, and Ms. Zhanping Wu, General Counsel, to Partners within the management company.
Dr. Frank Kung, Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and Chairman of Vivo, said: Hongbo is a remarkably talented investor whom we have known and collaborated with for more than ten years, and we couldn t be more thrilled to welcome her to Vivo. We look forward to her playing a critical role in the Firm s investments in innovation and public equity globally. She will also serve as the Chief Investment Officer for Vivo in China. Jack and Michael have contributed tremendously to both the
Credit: Professor Ákos Kovács, Technical University of Denmark
Humans have them, so do other animals and plants. Now research reveals that bacteria too have internal clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of life on Earth.
The research answers a long-standing biological question and could have implications for the timing of drug delivery, biotechnology, and how we develop timely solutions for crop protection.
Biological clocks or circadian rhythms are exquisite internal timing mechanisms that are widespread across nature enabling living organisms to cope with the major changes that occur from day to night, even across seasons.
Existing inside cells, these molecular rhythms use external cues such as daylight and temperature to synchronise biological clocks to their environment. It is why we experience the jarring effects of jet lag as our internal clocks are temporarily mismatched before aligning to the new cycle of light and dark at our travel destination.
Bacterial bioclock
Researchers have used the bacterium Bacillus subtilis to shine a light on internal clocks. Credit: Ákos Kovács, Technical University of Denmark
The ebb and flow of our daily lives revolves largely around our sleep cycle, which is governed by our body’s biological clock. Other animals and plants also have these internal timing mechanisms to cope with light changes across days and even seasons – and now researchers have discovered that bacteria do, too.
“We’ve found for the first time that non-photosynthetic bacteria can tell the time,” says lead author Martha Merrow, a chronobiologist from Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), in Munich, Germany.
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Bacteria can tell time
Humans have them, so do other animals and plants – now research reveals that bacteria too have internal daily clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of life on Earth.
The research answers a long-standing biological question and could have implications for the timing of drug delivery, biotechnology, and how we develop timely solutions for crop protection.
Biological clocks or circadian rhythms are exquisite internal timing mechanisms that are widespread across nature enabling living organisms to cope with the major changes that occur from day to night, even across seasons.
Existing inside cells, these molecular rhythms use external cues such as daylight and temperature to synchronise biological clocks to their environment. It is why we experience the jarring effects of jet lag as our internal clocks are temporarily mismatched before aligning to the new cycle of light and dark at our travel destination.
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The World Health Organization defines genomics as the study of genes and their functions and related techniques. Some may confuse genomics with genetics, the main difference between the two is that genetics focuses on a single gene where as genomics addresses all genes and their relationship with each other.
COVID-19 virus made the power of genomics more visible. Rene Hendriksen, Professor, and Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark mentioned,
“You can see if the continent has been infected with different clones [mutations of COVID-19] or the same clone and then track those to the point of entry,”