Stockwatch: The end of the affair with gene therapy
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Executive Summary
The End of the Affair, a 1951 novel by Graham Greene, depicts some of the worst human emotions that can accompany the ending of a relationship, and then after a break of two years, the re-ignition of those emotions in an investigative post-mortem. Way back at the start of this century I invested in a gene therapy company. Although the inevitable end of the affair caused me some heartache, unlike the principal characters in Mr Greene's classic novel I found it a valuable cathartic learning experience to have lost some money in this unproven area of biotechnology.
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