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Nexteer, a publicly traded global manufacturer of steering systems and drivelines, is controlled by a Chinese conglomerate and makes parts for top carmakers in the U.S. and China.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

It was also operating deep inside the nucleus of those cells, where DNA is stored and important genetic activity is controlled.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Dr. Prasad demanded that they conduct nothing less than double-blind randomized controlled trials in diseases for which such trials would be unethical or next to impossible because of their rarity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The findings suggest new ways to create and study these unusual quantum states in controlled settings such as ultracold-atom experiments.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee