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DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, groundbreaking molecular biologist; in Cambridge, England. Perutz and colleague John Kendrew won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the organic molecule hemoglobin, a key to transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body...
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist who works with the Federation of American Scientists on biological weapons issues, thinks Assaad may be right. Moreover, based on her own analysis she has prepared a profile of the killer far more detailed than anything the FBI has released. She thinks the killer is a middle-aged American who works for a CIA contractor in the Washington area but has had access in the past to the labs at Fort Detrick. She believes he or she has been vaccinated against anthrax and knows how to conceal forensic evidence. Says Rosenberg: "It's highly...
...Wiley was a brilliant biologist and a greatly admired member of this community,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers in a statement...
FOUND. A body carrying the identification of DON WILEY, 57, Harvard molecular biologist and researcher of deadly viruses like Ebola, who had been missing since Nov. 16; in the Mississippi River in Vidalia, La. Wiley had been attending a meeting in Memphis, Tenn...
...controversy. Says Irving Weissman, a stem-cell biologist at Stanford: "I don't think anybody believes the debate is over." It only got hotter when an independent company, Advanced Cell Technology, said recently that it had cloned human embryos to produce stem cells. This so-called therapeutic cloning produces cells with the patient's own DNA, reducing problems with future organ transplants. Congress will debate the issue anew next year, when opposing bills on cloning and stem-cell related research will be presented...