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After a storied scientific career that began with the discovery of how hormones control genes, Keith Yamamoto, PhD, has retired. Yamamoto, who most recently served as Vice Chancellor for Science ...

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Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history ...

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