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...world’s fastest growing markets will take center stage this Sunday as Harvard Business School hosts its fifth annual India Conference. The conference, hosted by the South Asian Business Association at HBS, will feature 10 panel discussions with top Indian business leaders, who will discuss India’s global presence in fields like healthcare, private equity, media and entertainment, and energy. The two keynote speakers for the conference—whose sponsors include the Tata Group and Goldman Sachs—will be Vivek Paul, a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, and Alan Rosling...
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian macaques that helps prevent infection by HIV-like lentiviruses...
While looking at the natural variation in the TRIM5 gene in Asian macaques, which are considered Old World monkeys, Harvard microbiologist Ruchi M. Newman accidentally discovered a second example of the TRIM5-CypA fusion, according to Medical School professor Welkin P. Johnson, the study’s senior author...
...gene is not found in any New World monkeys besides the owl monkey. It is found in three species of macaques—the Asian Old World monkeys—but not in sooty mangabeys, which are African Old World monkeys that are the closest relative to the macaques. Based on these facts, researchers estimated that the gene appeared between five and ten million years ago, Johnson said...
...OPEC members are also haunted by the organization's misstep in 1998, when they voted to boost production quotas shortly before the Asian economic crisis hit. That sent oil crashing to $10 a barrel. Such prices may now seem like ancient history, but as Cheney flies out to the Middle East, he'll be visiting a region where ancient history can seem very fresh indeed...