In May 2006 a team of scientists led by Dr. Luigi Naldini and Dr. Brian Brown from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy ( HSR-TIGET ) in Milan, Italy reported a breakthrough for gene therapy in which they developed a way to prevent the immune system from rejecting a newly delivered gene.

On April 1, 2006, Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home was sold to Arvin Starrett and E. Casey Rose ( who was managing the firm at the time ) and the name was changed to Starrett-Rose Funeral Home.

* February 17 – Gene Pitney, American singer ( d. 2006 )

In March 2006, a special event entitled The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On was held at the London School of Economics.

The network has run blocks of classic game shows on Saturday nights, and for the first few months of 2006 programmed back-to-back episodes of Match Game in a block billed as That ' 70s Hour ( a pun on That ' 70s Show ), which showed the original production slate before each episode as well as Match Game trivia and brief clips of an interview with host Gene Rayburn produced shortly before his death.

* Jumpin ' Gene Simmons ( 1933 – 2006 ) Rockabilly singer-songwriter

In November 2006, there were 27 computers on the TOP500 list using the Blue Gene / L architecture.

In June 2006, NNSA and IBM announced that Blue Gene / L achieved 207. 3 TFLOPS on a quantum chemical application ( Qbox ).

At Supercomputing 2006, Blue Gene / L was awarded the winning prize in all HPC Challenge Classes of awards.

* Elston, Gene ( 2006 ).

* Review of 2006 Gene Tunney biography

In early 2006, Robbins directed an adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, written by Michael Gene Sullivan of the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe.

* Elwood F. ' Woody ' Goulart, The Mystique and Mass Persuasion: Bill Drake & Gene Chenault ’ s Rock and Roll Radio Programming ( 2006 )

Also in 2006, along with Steve Mackey, he ' curated ' the two-CD compilation, The Trip, which featured a wide selection of tracks by artists as varied as The Fall, Gene Pitney, The Beach Boys, and The Polecats.

The first four statues, unveiled at its opening in 2006, included Wallace Wade, Frank Thomas, Paul " Bear " Bryant, and Gene Stallings.

The Blue Brain project used one of the fastest supercomputer architectures in the world, IBM's Blue Gene platform, to create a real time simulation of a single rat neocortical column consisting of approximately 10, 000 neurons and 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > synapses in 2006.

While Gene Upshaw, head of the National Football League Players ' Association, also criticized the field citing a 2006 survey of NFL players that ranked Heinz Field as the second worst field in the league.

" McIntosh, Matt ( 2006 ), Gene Expression.

In 2006, the band appeared on Harry Hill's TV Burp, after being featured on Rock School with Gene Simmons.

Thirty of these songs were recorded by artists including Cliff Richard, David Essex, Gene Pitney and Marc Almond for the 2006 various artists ' album Words / Music, and subsequently re-released in 2008 as a double CD titled Sound of Poetry.

On July 1, 2006, the educator and cultural editor of World, Gene Edward Veith, took the post of Academic Dean.

* Dawkins, Richard ( 1976 ; 1989 ; 2006 ) The Selfish Gene.

* " From Deep Space to The Nine " ( 2006 ) Fortean Times # 215, about Gene Roddenberry and The Nine

* Gene Klein ( 2006 – 2009 )

* Mercedes-Benz OF1313 with Luen Shing Bodyworks, Hong Kong for 6 --- from 1987 to 2006

* 2006 – Alan Moore ( author ) and David Lloyd ( illustrator ), V for Vendetta graphic novel

The first sequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ), was considerably more graphic and violent than the original and was banned in Australia for 20 years before it was released on DVD in a revised special edition in October 2006.

* H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( comics ), a 2006 graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and D ' Israeli

A second edition was published in 2006, and a graphic novel version will be published in 2013.

Also with the baseball broadcasts, the diamond graphic changed between 2005 and 2006.

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

In October 2006, a resident of Marshall attempted to have the graphic novels Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and Blankets by Craig Thompson removed from the Marshall Public Library.

During this time, Carey also wrote the hardcover OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies ( 2002 ), over 40 issues of Hellblazer between 2002 and 2006 and a 2005 Hellblazer original graphic novel, All His Engines.

* The Fountain ( 2006 ), developed alongside the graphic novel by writer / director Darren Aronofsky ( the OGN was illustrated by Kent Williams ).

It is the setting for Fun Home, a 2006 graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, who grew up there.

* 2006: Nicholas D. Kristof of New York Times, " for his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world.

For his longer stories, he also began creating stand-alone graphic novels, such as Sloth ( 2006 ), about a teenager from a small town who wills himself into a coma.

In the 2010 graphic novel Calamity Jack, sequel to Rapunzel's Revenge ( published in 2006 ), the giant Blunderboar has a pet Bandersnatch named Lewis, presumably after Lewis Carroll.

In 2006 Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions began production on a graphic novel adaptation of the first three books in the series, beginning with Guilty Pleasures.

* Aimee Chan – graphic designer, Miss Hong Kong 2006, actress

An adult Dorothy, along with Alice from Lewis Carroll's ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) and J. M. Barrie's Wendy Darling ( from Peter Pan ), is a featured character in the 2006 sexually explicit graphic novel Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, set in 1913.

In February 2006, 3Dlabs announced that it would stop developing professional 3D graphic chips and focus on embedded and mobile media processors.

" In 2006 Kristof won his second Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary " for his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and that gave voice to the voiceless in other parts of the world.

Originally appearing as an unnamed infant in the 1987 graphic novel Batman: Son of the Demon, the character was introduced as Damian Wayne by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert in 2006.

It has also been published as a graphic novel, Pibgorn: The Girl in the Coffee Cup, which was released in October 2006.

DiMassa illustrated Jokes and the Unconscious, a graphic novel written by poet and writer Daphne Gottlieb, which was published by Cleis Press in 2006.

* Chickenhare, a graphic novel ( first issue released in 2006 ), has a character named Banjo who is a Krampus.

In turn he and his work has inspired various forms in media, including the Beast in the 2006 Doctor Who episode " The Satan Pit ", and Simon Pegg's character graphic artist Tim Bisley on the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced.