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 heat tolerance Solutions to climate change often bring to mind engineering or international policy. At HMS, however, one effort arose from an unexpected corner: genetics. “Climate change has been coming for a long time, now, and there are many in our department who feel we as geneticists have a responsibility to do something about it—work to slow, halt, or reverse it as well as prepare the living world for the consequences of it,” said Chao-Ting Wu, professor of genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS. “The pandemic has only further emphasized the urgency of addressing climate ch...

By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN A flask of Synechococcus cyanobacteria above a device that stimulates growth. Image: Stephanie Dutchen In PhD student Max Schubert’s view, solving climate change requires two kinds of people: those who dream big and those who make the dreams happen. Some dreamers—including Schubert’s lab head, George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School—envision reducing global warming by genetically turbocharging an oceanic bacterium’s natural ability to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As...

The Drinks Business 12 February 2021 By Alice Liang Prepare to bid farewell to the Year of the Rat and say hello to the Year of the Ox, which symbolises the virtue of hard work and endurance, and the fulfilment of dreams. If you’re keen to raise a glass today to mark the occasion then check out our round-up of limited edition Chinese New Year wine and spirits releases. Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Barossa Valley Shiraz 2018 Gift Box “Baby Grange” Bin 389 has been hailed as the most auspicious wine due to its lucky Bin number according to Chinese tradition: 3 symbolises “bi...

Shiraz Uncorked: The Australian way January 22nd, 2021 Shiraz wine is an Australian institution. Since the mid-19 th Century, Australian growers have been honing their winemaking craft and turning Shiraz grapes into spectacular wine on a world stage. It’s an established fact that Australia produces some of the finest Shiraz wines in the world. As recently as 2019, Kellermeister’s Wild Witch 2015 Shiraz from the Barossa Valley took top honours at the London Wine Fair, and in 2020 d’Arenberg’s 2017 The Dead Arm Shiraz won Wine of the Year at the same competition. The variety’s origins...

A complete Penfolds Grange set has sold for a record $431,000 December 17th, 2020 A complete set of Penfolds Grange has just sold for $430,000 in the Langton’s Penfolds Rewards of Patience auction – a world record price. Christmas came early for a Sydney wine lover who successfully won the bidding war of the coveted set, which contains all vintages of Penfolds Grange from 1951 to 2015 (64 bottles in total). “This Penfolds set is unique because some of the bottles are signed by Max Schubert, Penfolds first Chief Winemaker and the man behind Penfolds Grange. Many of the older vintages hav...