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Heineken's South Africa managing director Gerrit van Loo, will be retiring soon Heineken South Africa’s managing director, Gerrit van Loo, is taking early retirement from the beermaker, almost three years after his appointment. On Thursday, the Netherlands-based company, which produces brands like Windhoek, Soweto Gold and Amstel, announced Van Loo’s retirement, saying that he will leave the company in "due course" and his successor will be announced then. Van Loo has been with Heineken for more than 33 years and has held several positions during that time, including m...

In the upcoming weeks, the Carefree Water Company will distribute information on important topics related to the 530 new accounts to be incorporated into the company’s water system. As a Carefree resident, knowing more about each of these topics will be important to you. The topics to be addressed will include: Where does the water to supply these new accounts come from? How will this impact my water rates? How will this project be financed? What is the anticipated construction timing and how will it be handled? Why does it make sense for the Carefree Water Company to begin servicing these ...

 E-Mail Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, as part of an international collaboration of scientists through the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium, have analysed the whole genomes of tumour samples from over 2,600 patients with different types of cancer. They identified a high prevalence of genetic diversity within individual tumours, which they further characterised. Their findings confirm that, even at late stages of development, tumour evolution is driven by changes that benefit the cancer. When cancer cells divide, errors occur in the process of copying their DNA. T...

Date Time Genetic diversity within tumors suggests continuous evolution By analyzing tumors from more than 2,600 patients and from 38 cancer types, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and fellow member institutions of the international Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium have characterized the extensive genetic diversity across cancer and within individual tumors. The study, published today in Cell, found that 95% of the analyzed tumors had at least one subclone, or genetically distinct group of tumor cells, and these subclones were often very divers...

Treasures of Malta,  Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti It had to be something like the latest issue of Treasures of Malta to provide a most welcome modi­cum of cheer in these bleak times, not least with its striking cover of a detail from a 16th-century frescoed map of Malta hailing the 1565 victory over the Ottomans. It lies in the Hall of Maps at the Vatican, one among several showing the lands over which the pope held authority. In 1732, Louis XV gifted Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena with a fine portrait of himself by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Van Loo took over the commission from the famous por...