DNA pioneer Wilkins dies aged 88
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Professor Maurice Wilkins, who helped unlock the structure of DNA with Crick, Watson and Franklin, has died aged 88.
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Science & environment: DNA pioneer James Watson has retired from his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made famous by his work in DNA, has set off an international furor with comments to a London newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19 -- James Watson, who in 1962 shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, on Friday canceled a tour to promote his latest book after suggesting in a published interview that black people are less intelligent than whites.
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Mumbai, Sept. 24 (NNN):One of India&#39;s most eminent nuclear scientists and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, Dr Raja Ramanna, passed away in Mumbai early this morning after a cardiac arrest.
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A patient in a gene therapy experiment died on Tuesday in what may have been a reaction to a novel treatment for arthritis, federal health officials said late yesterday.
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Robert Kupperman, a government scientist who started warning of terrorist attacks against the United States more than 30 years ago, has died of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.
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Dr Raja Ramanna, the scientific mastermind of India's first atomic test, has died aged 79.
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The family of DNA pioneer Professor Maurice Wilkins has been touched by floods of tributes from around the world.
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The scientist who invented DNA fingerprinting two decades ago has warned that the huge expansion of the British national database, which now contains details of 2.5 million criminals, could
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The 20th anniversary of genetic fingerprinting is marked by the Leicester University scientist who discovered it.
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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, a pioneer in surgery to implant artificial heart pumps in children, died of an apparent suicide over the weekend at the age of 45, hospital officials said Monday.
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A new way to use DNA sequencers could be the biggest thing to hit science since the microscope.