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Research into cancer leads workers into many byways, occasionally into danger. In September, Biochemist Herbert Winegard began to study a substance called ergo-thioneine, a sulphur compound found in abnormal amounts in the urine of cancer patients; it may, chemists think, affect the growth of cancer. In order to make the compound artificially, Winegard had to work with an unstable chemical compound called diazomethane; it is a deadly, odorless yellow gas that can be inhaled without giving a warning sensation of choking. No antidote is known. On Thanksgiving Day he finished his first pilot synthesis at Philadelphia's Lankenau...
...last week, at 28, Winegard died in Philadelphia's Jewish Hospital. It was just four years to the day since he had turned down a higher-paid commercial job to work at Lankenau-to satisfy "a longstanding ambition." Diazomethane, it appeared, had damaged his lungs and made him an easy prey for pneumonia...
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