Sonja Buckley, 86, Scientist, Is Dead; Helped Identify Lassa Virus
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Sonja Buckley helped in 1970 to identify the Lassa virus, a potentially deadly disease that originated in Africa.
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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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NAIROBI: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday reiterated her claim that the Aids virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
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Dr. Marguerite Vogt was a biologist who helped shed light on the polio virus at a time when it was virulent in the United States, particularly among children.
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Dr. Francis Crick, a renowned radicular Biologist, died of cancer on July 29, 2004. Prof. D. Wilson Devaprasad, an ardent reader of SOM had the opportunity of listening to his talk on &#39;DNA Helix&#39; at Hyderabad in 1981.
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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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Esther Lederberg was a microbiologist who identified a stealthy virus that invades bacteria and hides within its DNA, often emerging later to do its destructive work.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, one of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died Tuesday in London. He was 88.
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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi lawyer said yesterday that one of Saddam Hussein's former top scientists, known as "Mrs. Anthrax," has cancer and is dying in US custody, where she has been held for more than a year.
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Description: Author Susan Sontag died Tuesday in Manhattan, after a long struggle with cancer. Sontag was the author of many essays and 17 widely translated books.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.
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Novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, political commentator and lesbian Susan Sontag -- one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals -- died Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettring Cancer Center in Manhattan from leukemia complications.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly.
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A 23-year-old Indonesian woman from East Jakarta has died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll to 100, according to a report from Indonesia's bird flu information centre on Monday.
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Lucie Guo&#39;s grandfather died of cancer in China before she was born because doctors failed to detect the disease early enough to save him.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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A 39-year-old woman has died of a previously undiagnosed form of the brain-wasting condition variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease