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Daniel Nathans, Nobel Prize winner
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Daniel Nathans, who shared the Nobel Prize for work that led to
the field of genetic engineering, died Tuesday of leukemia. He was
71.
Nathans and his students used a restriction enzyme as "biochemical
scissors" to analyze DNA. His research, along with that of Swiss
scientist Werner Arber, found a protein that could slice DNA in...
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Interim President at Johns Hopkins U.
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ON THE PULSE
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Bush names science advisers
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