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Eugene Goldwasser, Discoverer of EPO
« on: December 19, 2010, 07:17:46 PM »

December 18, 2010
By GoozNews

Eugene Goldwasser, the University of Chicago biochemist whose agonizingly long but ultimately successful search for a single protein helped launch the biotechnology industry, died Friday in Chicago after a brief illness. He was 88.

The immediate cause of death was renal failure associated with advancing prostate cancer, which he
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