Topol knows some of the scientists at Calico from their pre-Calico days.
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Calico demanded global markets — and protectionists, wouldn't you know it, were able to paint calico fans as nothing less than sluts.
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CALICO Another health-related venture, Calico focuses on research and development of methods to cure life-threatening diseases, and tackling problems affecting mental and physical agility due to aging.
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Perhaps Calico will one day justify its secrecy, Topol said.
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A young calico cat with a bleeding paw looked up.
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"Calico Indians," hooded and masked farmers rebelling against upstate New York
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They include autonomous cars, the Calico health business, and Nest thermometers.
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But how exactly would Calico help humans live longer, healthier lives?
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That Calico won't say what it's doing bothers leading aging researchers.
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Among them: that Calico is just waiting for a big reveal.
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Calico never returned from her ride and was never seen again.
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Ancestry has worked with Google spinoff Calico to study human longevity.
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"I didn't know no better name than Calico," Norma Jeane said.
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Google's life extension company Calico was recently formed to battle aging.
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Small animals, calico tea cozies and not a lot of men.
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His loyal readers will cotton to the idea — calico to it!
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A recent news release from Calico announced a partnership with C23 Therapeutics to work on coming up with drugs for "diseases of aging," such as cancer — one of a number of drug company partnership's Calico has formed.
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Calico is part of Alphabet, the holding company that also owns Google.
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When the news of Calico hit the wires, the media snapped to.
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There are men's shirts, made in calico, with fabric samples alongside them.
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I did my best Emily Dickinson in a burgundy calico dress and white
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Calico, part of the Other Bets segment, is focused on anti-aging research.
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Shortly after joining Calico, Kenyon recruited a UCSF bioinformatics postdoc named Graham Ruby.
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The figures will be covered in an unbleached woven museum cloth called calico.
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Calico, founded by Google in 2013, is searching for drugs to counter aging.
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Right now, Calico scientists are reportedly trying to sequence the naked mole rat genome.
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Laura named Calico, Alphabet's company aiming to slow aging and counteract age-related diseases.
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However, it will not be a separate Alphabet unit like Nest, Fiber, or Calico.
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We walked through the fog to an exhibit called Origins: The Curse of Calico.
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We eat the calico raw and he makes the sheephead into a miso soup.
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In the last few years, major companies like Google's Calico and Human Longevity Inc.
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Her picture does indeed resemble a calico cat with patches of black and orange.
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Pros: Buy the KLEENGUARD Calico V50 Safety Eyewear on Amazon for $9.99 (originally $10.62)
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Alphabet Inc's Google has a business called Calico, also focused on extending life spans.
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Google has an offshoot, Calico, whose modest mission is to slow the aging process.
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Google's parent Alphabet also invests and owns two research and development organizations, Verily and Calico.
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Calico co-founder Nick Cope says the Aurora collection is often used in meditation rooms.
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A calico-striped one was dubbed CallieFisher (no space; names can only have 12 characters).
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Autonomous cars, Nest thermostats and the anti-aging division Calico are also in that category.
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I asked everyone I could about Calico — and quickly learned that it's an impenetrable fortress.
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Art Levinson, the CEO of Calico, is also chair of the board of Apple Inc.
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In addition to Google, Alphabet owns a number of other groups, including Calico and DeepMind.
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Google created Calico (for California Life Company) in 212 with the goal of defeating aging.
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It's half calico and half plastic, so it has both a rawness and a sheen.
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Sheephead and calico, like the spiny lobster, can't be found in the average American supermarket.
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I did learn, though, that a neighborhood calico cat is a frequent late night visitor.
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A calico wanders through a woman's legs as she tries to balance in a low lunge.
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A total of 10 art spaces will be open late, including Clayspace, Calico, and Kayrock Screenprinting.
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Calico Review describes the tone of the record, color, and what the palette for that is.
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Alphabet also owns two startups, Verily and Calico, that focus on medical research and aging, respectively.
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Calico, on the other hand, has more ominous goals of "curing death" to extend the human lifespan.
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Daphne Koller, the head of Google's life-extension spinoff, Calico, recently discussed some of her unpublished research.
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It was something Google had already been doing with projects like the secretive life-extension startup Calico.
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Sonya Calico was sent to solitary in a men's jail in Texas, supposedly for her own protection.
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Calico was created by Google back in 2013 to tackle human aging and diseases associated with age.
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Four are done on sections of printed calico, which have been joined and affixed to a canvas.
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She and John kept a bedroom for Calico, bringing her gifts there for passing Christmases and birthdays.
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"The researchers [Calico] hired are using models such as yeasts, nematodes, and naked mole rats," said Barzilai.
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Dolls that will fit this house include Hape dolls, Melissa & Doug dolls, Calico Critters, or Plan dolls.
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Andy Rios, the divemaster in my group, spears a handful of calico bass and a large sheephead.
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There's also Verily, the life sciences arm of Alphabet, as well as Calico, its life-extension spinoff.
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Also the new season has a really buff calico cat named Meowscles, so don't sleep on that.
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On the luxury front, Brooklyn wallpaper company Calico has released an entire collection of gradient wallpapers called Aurora.
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Before 19-year-old college sophomore Tara Calico left home for the last time, at 9:30 a.m.
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While she is battle-tested, the calico cutie isn't quite ready for the adventure of a new home.
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Bleachers and Calico Joe feature damaged men in their narratives, yet you wouldn't know it from Grisham's approach.
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Or that Uhuru helped to build the display units that Calico uses for its presentations at trade fairs.
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There's also Verily, the life-sciences arm of Alphabet, as well as Calico, its life-extension spin-off.
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Alphabet's Calico and AbbVie first partnered in 2014 to combat age-related diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
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So the company, through its Google Ventures investment arm, created Calico, a company effectively aimed at curing death.
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A December article in the MIT Technology Review, which was also scant on details about Calico's anti-aging science, hinted that might be the case: [David] Botstein [the Calico Chief Scientific Officer] says a "best case" scenario is that Calico will have something profound to offer the world in 10 years.
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Others are independent companies within Google holding company Alphabet, including Calico, which is doing anti-aging research, and Verily.
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She hired Dr. a new chief scientific officer, Hal Barron, who formerly led research and development at Alphabet's Calico.
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"I knew, my parents knew, immediately that some foul play had happened," says Chris Calico, Tara's older brother, 52.
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Google co-founder Page announced the creation of Calico in 2013, a company focused on aging research and therapeutics.
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So Calico went to the biggest family history database in the world: the consumer genetics and genealogy firm Ancestry.
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Death about Calico, a then-new Google-run health venture focused on understanding aging — and how to beat it.
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Calico CEO Art Levinson, former CEO of Genentech, is building an amazing research and development company focused on aging.
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Friends, Calico Joe, with its Tony Conigliaro meets afterschool TV special meets "Cat's in the Cradle" storyline, is bad.
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He reels in a Calico bass that's about the same size as the one Villas has in his bucket.
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We boarded the Calico River Rapids water ride which was slightly eerie in the dark but far from spooky.
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Black, white, tabby, calico, striped, Siamese, Van, Ragdoll — there were cats and kittens in every color and breed imaginable.
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But with temperatures already dipping to 40, how will the U.P.G., whose look centers on calico and gingham, acclimate?
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One bedroom has azure Calico wallpaper that appears to be finished with a torn edge and long silvery drips.
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A calico cat with its back limbs pulverized, trying to scurry out of a corridor and into shelter — where?
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Ms. Calico just happened to be in Hamburg, though, and got a glimpse of Mr. Simmons working the crowd.
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The company also recently teamed up with Alphabet's biotechnology company, Calico, to study the genetics of the human lifespan.
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I took her name, Calico, in remembrance of her and inappreciation for everything she taught me and did for me.
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Despite past failures with Google Health, Google parent Alphabet has current investments in life sciences (Verily) and anti-aging (Calico).
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The calico cat was running on a platform of experience and having "NO naughty deeds," based on her election profile.
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In a blog post, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller announced she is leaving the company to join Alphabet subsidiary Calico.
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The Google-backed Calico is tracking a thousand mice from birth to death to try to determine "biomarkers" of aging.
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Calico rode mom Patty Doel's 13-speed pink Huffy but, ever forward thinking, she had nonetheless prepared for another problem.
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Adams makes the works by cutting out letters from new and used calico, then sewing them onto found antique quilts.
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These include Sidewalk Labs, its urban planning subsidiary; Calico, an anti-aging effort; and its investment arms, GV and CapitalG.
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People who work at Calico, Calico's outside collaborators, and even folks who were no longer with the company, stonewalled me.
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Google parent company Alphabet is known for dipping its toe in the healthcare waters, with Calico and Verily Life Sciences.
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In one vignette, Anna shares her newly purchased Calico Critters—or a similar brand of anthropomorphized animal collectables—with Maya.
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Koller then spent a little less than two years at Alphabet's longevity lab, Calico, as its first chief computing officer.
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A similar image comes to mind when you hear that Calico painted the large wall panels in Apparatus's new showroom.
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Together, AbbVie and Calico have produced more than two dozen early-stage programs focused on diseases in oncology and neurosciences.
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While calico lobsters are extremely rare, the chances of finding an albino lobster are even rarer -- one in 100 million.
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CNX combines a service mesh (based on the Istio project) with management, security and networking solutions (based on Project Calico).
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Calico, however, has so far seemingly failed to yield any meaningful advancements in the life sciences, medicine, or biotechnology industries.
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Alphabet, created in 2015, comprises several companies beyond Google, including the driverless car firm Waymo and the biotech company Calico.
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Alphabet, created in 2015, comprises several companies beyond Google, including the driverless car firm Waymo and the biotech company Calico.
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When I was out at clubs I was meeting older transsexual people,and that's where I met my godmother, Nikki Calico.
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Headquartered in San Francisco, but with partnerships spanning the country, Calico has an impressive budget for tackling these questions: $1.5 billion.
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I flagged the papers with the researchers quoted in this story who said they did not change their assessment of Calico.
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Anti-aging company Calico has remained fairly quiet since being formed in 2013 via around a $1 billion investment from Google.
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Today, meet Sylvia, a calico cat available for adoption at the Little Shelter Animal Rescue & Adoption Center in Huntington, New York.
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The company also had a partnership with Alphabet's life-extension company, Calico, that quietly ended in 2018 after about three years.
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My 10-year-old daughter plays avidly with dolls of all sorts — American Girl, Calico Critters, Legos and no-name figurines.
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The artist cuts the letters from calico and sews them onto antique quilts, making the already dated language harder to read.
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The oldest mole-rat they have now is a 35-year-old male breeder, and Calico scientists plan to keep an eye on it and its long-lived compatriots as long as they humanly can (Buffenstein has kept her own colony, first obtained from Africa, for many years throughout her various jobs in academia and now at Calico).
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One major difficulty of anti-aging work is that Calico needs to have complete data on an organism from life to death.
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That's when tenant farmers donned calico gowns and feather masks in an uprising against their landlords who were trying to evict them.
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Her mother is an owner of the Calico Patch, a gift shop in Farmington, Me. Mr. Powell, 42, works in Brookline, Mass.
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But while biting another cat to get off the table is rude, revenge on the calico went to a whole other level.
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The newspaper The Weekly Anglo-African gave the event glowing coverage, singling out Gloucester's delegation for wearing nearly identical striped calico gowns.
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"Calico added a tremendous amount of validation to aging research," George Vlasuk, the head of a biotech startup called Navitor, told me.
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"I often break away from the intensity of the stages and scan through the faces in the crowd," Mr. Calico told me.
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Calico is a 2-year-old African pygmy hedgehog and she has probably traveled through more of the United States than you have.
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Several days later, no one else had collected the tortoiseshell calico, so Takayesu arrived with a box to take the kitty back home.
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Page describes Calico, the most mysterious of Google's other bets, as a "research and development company," rather than a pharmaceutical or biotech company.
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Gracias walked the ramp for Indian designer Gaurang Shah, who was exhibiting his new spring-summer collection Calico, inspired by traditional Indian textiles.
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Under the agreement, Calico is responsible for research and early development until 2022 and will be responsible for Phase 2a trials through 2027.
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Scientists at Calico, a research firm under the umbrella of Google parent company Alphabet, have been studying more than 3,000 mole-rats for years.
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The obvious breadwinner is Google, as emphasized when Alphabet separated Google from its more money-dependent Big Idea companies like Calico, X, and Fiber.
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Google sister company Calico and drug giant AbbVie are chipping in another $1 billion to cure diseases associated with aging, the companies said Tuesday.
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"A lot of lolitas [outside our community] can be really nasty online," Milky Swan tells me as her calico cat nuzzles up against us.
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Read on for a glimpse into their latest, and listen to an exclusive stream of Calico Review, out September 9th via Mexican Summer, below.
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We know because of the bones and footprints they left behind in places like Rainbow Basin, in the Calico Mountains just north of Barstow.
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And in a partnership that ended last year, Ancestry collaborated with Google-owned Calico to comb customer DNA for genes that affect human lifespan.
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But when it comes to extending lifespan, Spector says HLI faces serious competition in this space, referring to companies such as Calico, backed by Google.
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Its life-sciences arm Verily, anti-aging initiative Calico, urban planning group Sidewalk, and investment arms GV and CapitalG are all aggressively hiring health professionals.
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Chintz fabric, which is defined by Vogue as a "glazed Calico often printed or painted with large florals," was popular in a typical '80s room.
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The colony is separate from the Calico headquarters in San Francisco, across the Golden Gate at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California.
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Calico's David Botstein told Tech Review's Antonio Regalado that even if everything goes as planned, Calico won't have any big news for the next 10 years.
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During his tenure, Maris also dipped into other parts of Google's world, reportedly helping form Calico, the secretive health operation that sits under Google parent Alphabet.
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She also does grassroots detective work of her own, alongside Calico's high school friend Melinda Esquibel, the host of the podcast Vanished: The Tara Calico Investigation.
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And there's no telling what advancements Verily or Calico could bring to the healthcare industry, where disease prevention and life extension solutions could reap unprecedented benefits.
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By describing it in that manner, Page is signaling that Calico is still early-stage, and a ways off from bringing a product to the market.
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In his new role, he'll likely advise the company's urban development arm, Sidewalk Labs, its deep learning efforts, and its healthcare spin-offs, Verily and Calico.
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If one-size-fits-all glasses never fit, the KLEENGUARD Calico V50 Safety Eyewear comes with interchangeable temples and headbands to create a very comfortable fit.
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Two New York interior designer favorites — the lighting doyenne Lindsey Adelman and the wallpaper-design duo Calico — collaborated on a launch of works themed around corrosion.
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Adelman debuted a patinated brass Drop pendant series and Calico introduced a photorealistic wallpaper made by scanning an original painting that had been corroded with salt.
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Speaking of equipment, Valentine is where The Beach Boys worked on some records, did you guys get to use the same equipment to record Calico Review?
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There are still ambitious projects like Alphabet's smart contact lenses (under development from a company called Verily) or its life extension project (from a company called Calico).
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She drew the cloth together over the button and wound a thread tightly around it and twisted the corners of calico straight upward in a tapering bunch.
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I had somehow come to be the owner of four items that could accurately be described as something Laura Ingalls Wilder might have made out of calico.
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The Google X's Baseline Study project and Alphabet's Art Levinson-led longevity play, Calico, offer motivation enough for the internet giant to build a better remote monitor.
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Instead, they and the FBI are probing local suspects in the case amid longstanding theories that Calico was taken or attacked by people in her small community.
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In the cat chat room, I asked people what kinds of songs they sang to their pets, revealing that my calico happens to have a dinnertime tune.
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Google executive Larry Page once described at a conference Calico as "pretty independent," implying that he did not want Google to focus on areas with complex regulations.
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During the five hours he's spent on the pier this day, Villas caught a two-pound Calico sea bass, which he keeps in a bucket of water.
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During her ride, onlookers shared that they saw a truck following Calico and harassing her, though they thought it was her friends playing a joke on her.
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And there is Larry Page's founding of Calico (or California Life Company), an anti-aging research center in San Francisco, with a multimillion-dollar investment from Google.
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"Calico Cow" for example, had its first life as a 1944 New Yorker cover and was one of 186 that featured her work between 1929 and 1972.
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Hers was two pieces: a ruffled pinafore in a pale blue calico over a Peter Pan-collared, bell-sleeve blouse in a contrasting floral, called the Apron.
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It kind of makes sense because calico is a bunch of different colors that create something that is one, which is sort of what this album is.
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"If the workday has been exhausting and you are now trying to get up the energy to go to the gym, that's one playlist," Ms. Calico explained.
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Early in this collection, in the poem "Grand Mal Seizure," a woman describes the calico and lace dresses she sews before they are taken away from her.
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Calico and The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, have partnered to reportedly find a molecular signature of aging in the blood, feces, or urine of 1,000 mice.
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The questions have lingered for nearly 30 years, ever since Calico went missing one September morning in 1988 while returning from her regular bike ride in Valencia County.
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Other Bets also includes the connectivity-focused Access (formerly Google Fiber), healthcare and life extension units Verily and Calico, and other smaller units centered on venture capital investments.
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All that's known about Calico is that a team of former Genentech executives are recruiting scientists in an effort to better understand aging -- and how to combat it.
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Consider the other grandiose projects within Alphabet — self-driving cars, Internet balloons and the longevity-research lab Calico — that don't appear to face pressure to generate cash immediately.
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Depending on the age or gender of the child, some suggestions: kid-friendly nail polish like Piggy Paint, scrunchies — Claire's has a plethora, Calico Critters (small dolls), Transformers.
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Alphabet has an array of initiatives in the space, ranging from an anti-aging group called Calico to its health software and devices-focused unit, known as Verily.
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Another health-related venture, Calico focuses on research and development of methods to cure life-threatening diseases, and tackling problems affecting mental and physical agility due to aging.
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Beneath the steady gaze of Naxie, the store's calico cat, visitors will find rare and antiquarian books, new and used paperbacks, modern classics and troves of Greek literature.
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This is the same explanation for what occurs in calico cats, who express different genes in different parts of their skin, causing patches of hair with different colors.
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Ancestry shared with Gizmodo a link on yet another part of its website to its list of research collaborators, emphasizing that Google's Calico is the company's only commercial partnership.
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Alphabet, Google's parent company, has a number of bets in healthcare, ranging from Verily, its life-sciences arm that's developing surgical robots, to Calico, its life-extension spin-off.
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Now there are six dozen, she said: plain brown rabbits, white ones with black patches, tawny ones, black dwarfs, brindles, floppy-eared lops and one adorable smudge-nosed calico.
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Rachel and Nick Cope, the 30-something couple behind Calico Wallpaper, had wanted to make textile versions of their mural-style wallpapers since they founded their company in 2013.
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In the process, Cole picked up an education, and learned engraving as a print shop apprentice, initially designing patterns for calico fabrics, later making prints of well-known paintings.
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A sinuous black-and-white concrete ribbon, echoing his boardwalk along Rio's Copacabana Beach, leads you past miniature palm trees, drooping ornamental elephant's ears, and beds of calico plants.
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I think the equipment definitely affecting how it [Calico Review] sounds, but I don't think it affected the songwriting, since that was done before we went into the studio.
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In Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, Steven Johnson discusses calico, the whimsical printed cotton fabric that the English went gaga over in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Still, they won't live forever (unless Alphabet's "bet" on life-extension tech, Calico, really delivers), so the company will have to plot a course without them sooner and later.
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Lee tweeted that her cat came inside "soaking wet," so she did some investigating and saw her black cat pushing her calico into the pool on her security camera.
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Ancestry has also asked its users to consent to participate in research, teaming up with partners that have included Calico, a Google spinoff researching ways to extend human lifespan.
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Fabric – A network of searchable memories In today's day and age, companies with millions in resources like Google's Calico are working on combating diseases related to aging like memory loss.
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So, after clicking through a multitude of Persian curmudgeons and scruffy calico kittens, maybe you'll consider more closely what personal information might be revealed through your own social media sharing.
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Five years later came Calico Joe, the story of how one pitch in 1973 altered the lives of a young superstar, a journeyman pitcher, and that pitcher's now adult son.
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Natalee Holloway hasn't been seen since the night before she was supposed to fly home from Aruba in 2005, and Tara Calico never came home from a 1988 bike ride.
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Google had a big 2015: It changed its logo, divvied up its business into startups like Sidewalk, Calico, X, Fiber, and consolidated all those companies into one brand named Alphabet.
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Scientists from Calico Life Sciences LLC, a Google-funded company focused on the biology of aging, teamed up with researchers from Ancestry to investigate the genetic influence on life span.
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His subjects are dressed in their best clothes, or in shirts patched into calico patterns; posed solemnly, or with whimsical props; alone or in a crowd of family and friends.
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Allah-Las, a breezy, throwback guitar-pop band based in Los Angeles, has released three albums on small independent labels since 2012, including its most recent, "Calico Review," last year.
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" Walker later met her cat Frida at a shelter, "a two-year-old long-haired calico with big yellow eyes and one orange leg ... I named her Frida, after Frida Kahlo.
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With her Walkman cassette player and a Boston tape, Calico was heading out from her family's house in Rio Communities, New Mexico, on her regular bicycle route of roughly 35 miles.
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The calico kitty sits almost dead center to where people need to exit, seemingly confident that the dozens of people stepping off the escalator will move to accommodate her nap time.
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" Bill Maris, who conceived of Calico, said that, when he pondered the inevitability of death, "I felt it was maybe our mission here to transcend that, and to preserve consciousness indefinitely.
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"This pale yellow joins other oddly colored lobsters including a blue, orange, calico, and the Aquarium's Halloween lobster, which is orange on one side and black on the other," the aquarium said.
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"You'd be hard-pressed to find a Duke student who hasn't met or heard of Peaches, the friendly calico cat that lives behind Few Quadrangle, one of the Duke dormitories," she says.
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I mention this because it is the best way to describe the way in which, over three days in March—including one long, desultory Saturday night—I read Bleachers and Calico Joe.
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Led by Daphne Koller, the former chief computing officer of Google life-extension spinoff Calico, Insitro recently inked a deal with $84 billion biotech Gilead to develop drugs for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
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Sitting hunched with her chin on her knees, Laura felt as big as a mountain when the snake curved up its head and stared at the high wall of her calico skirt.
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Cynthia Kenyon, the vice president for aging research at Calico, studied life extension long before it was cool; her former protégée, Laura Deming, now runs a venture capital fund for the cause.
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He mingled with his new "herd," which consisted of a half-dozen sheep, Lawrence and four other goats, and the newest stray in the household, an odd-looking calico cat named Polly.
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The law was intended to prevent the killing of landlords by tenant farmers in the Hudson Valley who dressed up as American Indians and wore disguises of calico gowns and leather masks.
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Another Google offshoot, Calico, is working on treatments to fight ageing, while the group's arms-length GV venture capital operation has invested in dozens of healthcare start-ups, mostly in the United States.
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Core Google generates most of the company's money, and a separate category called "other bets" includes projects like Google Fiber, Nest thermostats, science initiatives Calico and Verily and the investment arm Google Ventures.
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Core Google generates most of the company's money, and a separate category called "other bets" includes projects like Google Fiber, Nest Thermostats, science initiatives Calico and Verily, and the investment arm Google Ventures.
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I recently started poking around in Silicon Valley and talking to researchers who study aging and mortality, and discovered that four years after its launch, we still don't know what Calico is doing.
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Calico, who was 19 at the time, told her mother to call the police if she wasn't back from her bike ride by noon on the day she went missing in September 1988.
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Inexpensive calico bloomers in one work conjure slave life; richer fabrics give the embracing couple in the show's first painting a foreign mien, as if they are a king and queen in Africa.
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LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has poached veteran drug industry scientist Hal Barron from Alphabet-funded Calico to be its research head as new Chief Executive Emma Walmsley steps up her drive to improve productivity.
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Kennedy's motorcade stopped here and there; at Calico Village he sat with a 10-year-old Lakota Sioux, Christopher Pretty Boy, who had lost his parents in a car crash a week earlier.
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Ms. Gardner, the owner of Moon (a black domestic shorthair), said she experimented with many bowls — including a soup bowl from Walmart — to determine which ones Moon and Rupert (a calico) liked best.
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Wing became the first drone company to make commercial deliveries to consumers in the U.S. And Verily and Calico are doing important work, through a number of great partnerships with other healthcare companies.
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Wing became the first drone company to make commercial deliveries to consumers in the U.S. And Verily and Calico are doing important work, through a number of great partnerships with other healthcare companies.
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Google's parent company, Alphabet, has a number of health-related "Other Bet" businesses that will remain independent from Google Health, including Verily, the life sciences group, and Calico, which is focused on aging.
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What was once a fringe science is rapidly becoming one of the Valley's hottest investments, thanks to high profile endeavors like Alphabet's $1.5 billion bet on Calico and Bezos and Thiel-backed Unity Biotechnology.
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Scott Chassé, now the sole organizer of the free biannual event and founder of Calico gallery space, told me that art-supporting businesses have always been a hallmark of the art scene in Greenpoint.
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Core Google is where all the money is made, and a separate category called "Other Bets" includes projects like Google Fiber, Nest thermostats, science initiatives Calico and Verily and the investment arm Google Ventures.
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"At Calico, I will work on the development of new computational methods for analyzing biological data sets, to help move to achieving these important scientific and societal goals," said Koller in a blog post.
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Since then, the billion-dollar longevity lab known as Calico—short for California Life Company—has been trying to tease apart the fundamental biology of aging in the hopes of one day defeating death.
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Meanwhile, Calico and Verily have their own offices to help them function with their own management structures, although some staff were recruited from Google and still maintain close relationships, said several former Google employees.
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Nir Barzilai, a geneticist and one of the leading researchers in aging based at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said the publications didn't give him any special insights into what Calico is up to.
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The strength of Alphabet's core advertising business gives it the rare ability to invest in speculative ventures like health research company Calico and self-driving cars without immediately needing those businesses to make money.
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Perhaps the pyramid will be built and then forgotten and then revived in the future, like what happened to the Calico Ghost Town, which serves as a reminder of the days of silver mining.
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Google has been interested in health care for some time; its current efforts are quite fragmented, and they span across several teams and its parent Alphabet's companies, including Nest, Verily, Calico, DeepMind, and Google Fit.
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Alphabet-owned Calico, which launched in 2013 in San Francisco, is developing drugs with the help of AI to fight aging and age-related diseases, combines biology and medical experts with leaders in artificial intelligence.
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Meanwhile Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page helped launch Calico, a secretive venture that's tracking mice from birth to death in hopes of finding markers for diseases like diabetes and Alzheimer's, the report said.
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Yet Page and co-founder Sergey Brin spun out some of those projects from Google itself when it restructured as Alphabet last August, including Fiber, anti-aging biotech division Calico, and smart appliance maker Nest.
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Sleeve trends might sound like something that only your great-aunt and Laura Ingalls Wilder would have been into (brown calico, leg o' mutton, and with lace at the hems, in case anyone was curious).
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For their first collection, which has corresponding Calico papers, she found inspiration in florist Saipua's upstate New York flower farm and in the landscape around Hudson, N.Y., where the Copes recently bought a weekend house.
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There are 21947,21957 items in total — sculptural silk ball gowns and cocoon-shaped coats and a tobacco-brown chenille-embroidered lace coat once owned by Wallis, Duchess of Windsor — all shrouded in calico garment bags.
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"You take humans — they age two, three or four decades, and then they have a baby that's brand new," said K. Adam Bohnert, a postdoctoral researcher at Calico Life Sciences in South San Francisco, Calif.
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In April 1870, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, recounted her first day in court, focusing primarily on what she wore ("a calico gown, worsted breakfast-shawl, green ribbons in her hair, and a green neck-tie").
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Calico Labs — the mysterious life-extension research and development company backed by Google and pharmaceutical giant AbbVie — is harnessing a colony of walking, toothy scrotums known as naked mole rats to unlock the secrets of aging.
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GOS is also a great opportunity to check in on the neighborhood's blossoming gallery scene, so as you stroll between studios, be sure to check out local stalwarts like 106 Green, Calico, and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery.
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Other signs surfaced suggesting a grim fate: Witnesses said Calico was followed that morning by a pickup truck and investigators learned that, in the months before she went missing, "threatening notes" were left on her vehicle.
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In 2013 Google (now Alphabet) started a venture called the California Life Company, or Calico, to take a "moonshot" approach to anti-ageing; the company has said it will invest up to $750m in the venture.
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It was nearly a year ago that Google announced that it would be evolving into a holding company structure, with a parent company known as Alphabet and different units — like Google, Nest and Calico — underneath it.
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The analyst said that many biotech companies, including Unity Biotechnology and Calico (a Google venture), are developing therapies with the goal of extending the human "healthspan," the portion of life lived free of age-related disease.
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Also on display are two Calico lobsters, distinguished by their spotted shells, and a rare blue lobster, which is that color because of a rare gene mutation that causes it to create more of a certain protein.
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The large size and scope of the database allowed the Calico scientists "to look across families over generations, analyzing longevity not just in family members, but importantly among in-laws as well," Ball wrote in an email.
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In the nation of catenaccio, counter-attack and tough defenders, Zeman decided to employ an extremely aggressive calico style based on a high-tempo 4-3-3 formation, offside tactics, and frenzied movements of players and ball.
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Other artists get more abstract tributes: Damien Hirst is a glittery cartoon skull; Keith Haring is a dancing heart with legs; Marcel DuChamp is R. Mutt's toilet; Georgia O'Keefe is a cow skull adorned with a calico rose.
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Google parent company Alphabet has a dedicated life sciences research subsidiary called Verily and a life extension effort known as Calico, both of which stand to benefit from easier access to wider health data sets and research results.
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It was analyzed at least three different times — including by the FBI, who felt strongly that it likely wasn't Calico, but could not say for certain, and by Scotland Yard in the U.K., who declared it was her.
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One of my favorite childhood memories is of reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables for the first time, a Dr Pepper by my side and a pile of Twizzlers fanned out on my calico-print bedspread.
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The new Alphabet structure separated Google's core business -- selling digital advertising -- from its more experimental long-term businesses like investing (GV), internet access (Access), home automation (Nest) and health technology (Verily and Calico), which it calls Other Bets.
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A secretive Google spinoff called Calico, for California Life Company, is said to be scrutinizing the genome of the naked mole rat, celebrated for a life span 10 times longer than that of most of its rat cousins.
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Regrettably, Google's parent Alphabet isn't giving us separate figures for its eight existing non-Google businesses — which include its self-driving car project, the acquired smart-home device unit Nest and the anti-aging lab Calico, among others.
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The surrounding walls are painted a dark heritage red, bringing to mind national galleries and private libraries, but also, for this viewer, the books you might find in such places, specifically the calico covers of nineteenth-century novels.
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The 12-day "Gujarat: The Land of Legends, Culture and Crafts" begins in Ahmedabad to see Hindu and Jain temples; the Sabarmati Ashram, where Gandhi once lived; and the Calico Museum of Textiles, whose handiwork spans five centuries.
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Perhaps the most visible example is Calico, short for the California Life Company, a spin-out from Google launched in 2013 and funded with $1.5 billion to study the causes of aging and what to do about them.
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Later, we walk through the atelier tailleur, where technicians are busy pinning mannequins with toiles: trials of garments, executed in inexpensive calico to illustrate volumes and to allow a designer some experimentation before cutting into the final fabrics.
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Alphabet (we are obligated to call it that at least once) did not provide a breakdown of revenue and losses for specific divisions like Calico, its life extension research operation, or Google Capital and GV, its venture capital arms.
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As she works the case, Sister Jane, the charming protagonist of this mystery novel, is surrounded by a number of memorable characters: a wise old gray fox; a hound at the top of his game; and a persnickety calico.
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I spent the summer immersed in this colorful world, meeting people such as Lili, Alex, Mary, Jason, Jess and Mr. Calico, who have created their own space, beyond the naivete of childhood and in opposition to the adult world.
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The 67-year-old physician grabbed her calico cat Nala (Mustafa, a gray tabby, was missing) and soon found herself drinking tea and eating Pakistani food served by hosts she had never met before they invited her to join them.
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Melinda Esquibel, a high school friend of Tara's and the host of the podcast Vanished: The Tara Calico Investigation, says that with the passing years more people are comfortable coming forward while others who may have been involved have died.
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Another fly in the ointment is that this will be the first Google I/O with Alphabet, Google's parent company, in the mix, so we may not hear about projects at Verily, Calico, or any other Alphabet subsidiary at all!
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Close to a decade into their career, the LA outfit, whose sound falls somewhere between surf, psych rock and vintage pop, finally broke through to make international headlines—though not from the rising star of 2016's hit Calico Review.
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Among the little more than a dozen press releases Calico has put out, there were only broad descriptions of collaborations with outside labs and pharmaceutical companies — most of them focused on that overwhelmingly vague mission of researching aging and associated diseases.
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The idea of heading into town for a few yards of gingham or calico fabric and then turning those lengths of cloth into the family's wardrobe always imbued Ma Ingalls with a touch of magic, to my way of thinking.
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"Research in music psychology and cognition confirms what many people already know: Loud, fast music increases heart rate, breathing and blood pressure, while slower, quieter music has the opposite effect," said Joy Calico, a professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University.
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The loft has the quality of a Mondrian: Bare white walls are set off against rectangular panels of intricately grained rare woods, a grid of tatami mats and cylindrical white calico-covered stools floating on clear legs (also designed by Sugimoto).
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Google, now Alphabet, launched life extension research startup Calico, Larry Ellison has poured $400 million into the Lawrence Ellison Foundation to focus on aging and both J. Craig Venter and XPRIZE's Peter Diamand teamed up to form genomics company Human Longevity, Inc.
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Try Calico, in Blagden Alley, where you can perch next to tall heaters with flames and sip a creamy hot chocolate — made with butter chocolate and spiked with dark rum — while cozying up under the bar's selection of fleece and flannel blankets.
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It also has tapped leaders in genetics and biology to study mice, yeast, and worms in an ambitious mission to understand and extend the human lifespan, according to a recent look into the secretive workings of Calico reported today by MIT Technology Review.
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These findings do, however, shine a spotlight on claims of greater antiquity than 15,000 years that have been made in the past for a few other sites in the Americas, notably the Calico Hills, also in California, and Pedra Furada, in Brazil.
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By day, a steady stream of tourists came, posing for pictures (and peeking in the windows) dressed in the free costumes provided by the visitor center — calico smocks with cameos, overalls and black jackets, even the spectacles — and wielding pitchforks of all sizes.
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Brin, whose company has invested over $1 billion in a "longevity lab" called Calico (short for the California Life Company), is dating Nicole Shanahan, the founder of a patent-management business that will work with some of the National Academy's biotech patents.
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At the SculptureCenter a curvaceous yellow commode features cheekily placed drawer knobs, and a calico screen beckons you to insert your limbs into limply hanging sleeves and voids (even if the rules of the institution do not allow you to actually do so).
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GSK, which had hired Barron from Alphabet-backed biotech firm Calico in 2017, will become more dependent on its drug development fortunes as it prepares to fold its consumer health business into a joint venture with Pfizer that will be separately listed.
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If you're feeling extra frugal, though, you can make a turn onto Calico Basin Road, just northeast of the main entrance; slowly zigzag north and west until you find yourself at the end of Sandstone Drive, and park your car in the lot there.
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He's far from the first Silicon Valley futurist to welcome middle age with a pivot toward lifespan extension tech—Sergey Brin and Larry Page have Calico, Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel have Unity Biotechnology—but he's getting to be one of the most prolific.
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While there's still a long road ahead, there are several brands that are paving the way towards this movement by offering forward and directional pieces that also happen to be ethically-made — essentially kiboshing the notion that "ethical clothing" means hemp necklaces and calico dresses.
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These include life sciences (Alphabet's standalone businesses include Verily and Calico), its broadband service (Google Fiber), its startup investments (GV) and its self-driving car business (Google X). Alphabet has gained more insight into these separate entities, though the transition has appeared rocky at times.
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RBC estimates operating losses of $3 billion to $6 billion for 2015 for Alphabet's moonshot projects, which include Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), GV (formerly Google Ventures), Google Capital, X (formerly Google [X]) and other initiatives, according to the company.
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Excited by the prospect of a new venture, she searched online for dress patterns from the sixties and seventies, many of them for girls, and had them remade for herself: a mint-green sailor's dress with black rickrack trim; a pinafore in gray calico.
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The British artist Rob Heard spent five years hand-sewing calico shrouds to the thousands of small figures so that the bodies of the soldiers could symbolically be laid to rest on British soil in time for the anniversary on Sunday of Armistice Day.
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That's because Page hasn't been focused on Google's core search advertising business for a very long time, and instead managed a portfolio of what the company called "Other Bets" — side businesses like Calico, a health tech company, and Waymo, its self-driving car venture.
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Calico is a drug-development company much more willing to talk about its world-leading scientists, such as Cynthia Kenyon, a worm biologist, and the track record of its boss, Arthur Levinson, who used to run Genentech, a biotech giant, than about what it is actually doing.
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She is a daughter of Carol B. Sank and David A. Sank of Northport, N.Y. The bride's father is the chief operating officer of Calico Cottage, a fudge company in Amityville, N.Y. Her mother, who is retired, was a teller at Boca Bank in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Many a 2-year-old with a box of crayons has treated wallpaper as an interactive medium, but this wallpaper — the Color and the Shape, designed by Philippe Malouin, who is Canadian and British, and manufactured by Rachel and Nick Cope's Calico Wallpaper in Brooklyn — really is.
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It seems the women of the 17th century who loved calico for its sweet appearance and sweeter texture — its fun, as Johnson has it — were once considered, of all things, anti-England, since the wool growers of Albion could not slake their thirst for softer textiles.
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In the past few years, Alphabet has poured money into its self-driving car company, Waymo, the anti-aging project Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy-kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, and more.
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At some point in the next two and a half hours after she left home, likely during her return along Highway 47 near the end of her route, Calico vanished from the road under the big blue New Mexico sky, surrounded by miles of brush, desert and ranch-land.
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"It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer," Bill Gates, whose philanthropy focuses on global poverty, said during a session on Reddit last year in response to a question about Calico, the Google spinoff.
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Mora's illustrations use collage to give the book's world a sense of depth and vibrancy — the stew in the pot is represented by an ever-changing calico design — and the stream of cooking odors trailing out the apartment window gives the first hint of the book's folkloric plot.
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Alphabet first came into existence in 2015 as "a collection of companies" that separates Google from "other bets" that aren't part of its core businesses, such as Waymo (self-driving cars), Verily (life sciences), Calico (biotech R&D), Sidewalk Labs (urban innovation) and Loon (rural internet access via balloon).
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Alphabet, Google's parent, has just launched a third health-care firm, Cityblock Health, to operate alongside Verily, a subsidiary based in San Francisco, and DeepMind Health, an arm of its London-based artificial-intelligence (AI) firm (a fourth company, Calico, is working to extend human lifespans, but does not provide health-care services).
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In July 1989, 10 months after his teenage stepdaughter Tara Calico vanished near their home in New Mexico, a friend called John Doel with word of something strange: A photograph had surfaced in Florida showing a young woman and a boy who'd been bound and gagged — and the woman looked just like Tara.
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It's worth noting that while "other bets" includes projects like the self-driving car pilots, the Calico health initiative, and other speculative projects (or 'moonshots,' as Alphabet likes to call them), Alphabet also includes Nest and Google Fiber, as well as its venture capital arms GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Google Capital.
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Their previous two releases, 2011's self-titled debut and 2014's Worship the Sun, are soaked in warm rays, copper-tinted, and framed by faded film stock, an aura the group has channeled since 2008 and transposed onto their latest work, Calico Review, with a little help from some antique equipment.
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Bradford's conviction came swiftly, but the families of others, including Jacqueline (250) and Malcolm (2000) Bradshaw, siblings murdered and dumped next to a dirt road off the 25 freeway south of Barstow in 000, and Dennis Gibson, found near Calico Ghost Town, California in 225, have had to wait longer for justice.
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In what other job could I crash a toga party in India, masquerade as the husband of a Times correspondent in Saudi Arabia, dine with Yakuza gangsters in Japan, meet Fidel Castro in Manhattan, have my arm soaked by baby tiger slobber at the Baghdad Zoo or rescue a calico cat from Pakistan?
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But India has been making good stuff for a long time: the chintz and calico that gave Europeans their first taste of real fashion, the teapots over which Americans plotted their independence, the indigo that suited armies the world over, the jute which made tough gunny sacks, and even the manhole covers sealing American sewers.
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Apple's Board of Directors now has seven members: Chairman Arthur D. Levinson (CEO of Alphabet's biotech R&D company Calico), James A. Bell (the former CFO of Boeing), Al Gore, Andrea Jung (CEO of Grameen America), Ronald Sugar (Former CEO Northtrop Grumman), Susan L. Wagner (Co-Founder of BlackRock), and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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I've always thought that one of the reasons the "Little House on the Prairie" books continue to be popular with tween girls, many decades after they were first published, is that their presentation of the difficulties inherent to a girl's maturation into womanhood are mediated through the cushioning presence of yards of calico, wool and muslin.
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A Macintosh PowerBook 160: she'd left it to me in her will, along with her books, but it had sat, plastic and inert, a thwarted life of the mind, her mind, a mind that I crammed into a box and stored in the back of the cupboard where I keep my fabric, yards of cambric and calico and gingham.
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His book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle stars a missing cat; Kafka on the Shore features a character who can communicate with lost cats; and the essay "On the Death of My Cat" shares Murakami's personal stories about the many mewling muses he's shared his life with: Kirin, Butch, Sundance, Mackerel, Scotty, Calico, Peter, Black, Tobimaru, Croquette, and (fittingly) Muse.
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But I have also had my share of climbing successes; I have climbed some really tough buildings in my life, including the Calico in New York (also illegally), the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Blue Cross-Blue Shield building in Philadelphia, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is the tallest structure in the world.
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Vix found out about furries in middle school, and while she was initially hesitant to join due to negative things she'd heard about the community, after getting two fursuits in 2011 she established her main fursonas: a calico cat-deer named Vix and a blue arctic fox named Rika, which has many alternate versions (including a male goat and a demonic jester).
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They're total money losers, and that's OK. On Monday afternoon Google parent company Alphabet reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2015, breaking out for the first time what it calls "Other Bets," its name for speculative projects like Google Fiber, Nest, health research company Calico, and X, the R&D division that's home to the company's self-driving car efforts.
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For its part, GV's financier Alphabet (né Google) has long had multiple health-focused research interests — from moonshots like its project to hack death (Calico) to operating a dedicated Life Sciences division (né Google Life Sciences; now called Verily) which, since 2012, has worked on various bioscience/tech projects such as synthetic skin or a contact lens to track glucose levels for diabetes sufferers.
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The two ruthless corsairs were part of Calico Jack Rackam's crew during the Golden Age of Piracy, a roughly 80-year span from 1650 to 1730, when an excess of skilled sailors, combined with a rise of colonial cargo and general lawlessness, led to privateers seeking loot on the seas until the navies of Western Europe and the North American colonies finally cracked down on the practice.
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Matt: Working on the album art with a close friend Robbie Simon we kind of came to an agreement on what we wanted and I was kinda toying with the ideas of these colors, and it was sort of like, the colors, to me, looked kind of calico, and we just kind of went from there and ended up with these two words that sound nice together.
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Because we were so transitory, I grew up associating the idea of home less with a physical structure than with the objects that inhabited it: A place became ours, mine, only when the 19th-century pine chest was positioned in the living room, when the early American quilt with its worn calico squares was hung on the wall, when our books had been unpacked and placed on the shelves.
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