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Russia halts oilfield licence for Bashneft-LUKOIL JV-Ifax
Reuters
... to grant the licence was cancelled on May 18 due to "irregularities connected to granting of the licence." Bashneft and LUKOIL declined to comment. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; additional reporting by Denis Pinchuk; Editing by Melissa Akin)

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Sangamo BioSciences And Collaborators Highlight Widening Applications Of ZFP ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our ZFP Nuclease (ZFN) technology provides an extremely efficient and precise process for editing any DNA sequence. This enables us to disrupt specific genes or to precisely add DNA sequences that allow a patient's own gene to be corrected and its ...

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Why misspelled names are so common & what journalists are doing to prevent them
Poynter.org
Jesse Lewis, multiplatform editing chief at The Washington Post, said misspellings at the Post typically occur when sources have common names with unusual spellings — Clark v. Clarke, for example, or Jimi v. Jimmy. “In these cases, the error tends to ...