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Edmond H. Fischer, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist whose help in discovering a basic regulatory mechanism in cells paved the way for the development of drugs for cancer, diabetes, and other diseases, died in Seattle on August 27. He was…

Graeme Ferguson, a Canadian documentarian who cocreated Imax, the panoramic cinema experience that immerses audiences into movies, and was the chief creative force of the company for years, died on May 8 at his home in Lake of Bays,…

SHANGHAI - Yuan Longping, a Chinese plant scientist whose breakthroughs in developing high-yielding hybrid rice varieties helped alleviate famine and poverty in much of Asia and Africa, died on Saturday in Changsha, China. He was 90 years…

In the early days of the company, Mr. Trudeau recalled, he would visit the Andrewses to work on his nascent strip, as all the Syndicate artists did."I would stay with them and help them pretend they had a viable business that, without my…

BioNTech's chief medical officer told CNBC on Wednesday that people will likely need a third shot of its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine to lower immunity to the virus. This is in line with previous comments from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.Dr.…

She grew up in Hungary, daughter of a butcher. She decided she wanted to be a scientist, although she had never met one. She moved to the United States in her 20s, but for decades never found a permanent position, instead clinging to the…

"Oh, saying there are locusts in northern Kenya" doesn't help at all, "said Mr. Cressman." We need real-time latitude and longitude coordinates. "Rather than trying to rewrite the Locust tracking software for newer tablets, Mr. Cressman…

The medical group and another advocacy group, Human Rights Watch, exposed the threats to public health, especially children, from anti-personnel landmines in Cambodia. In a report she called for an international ban on these weapons. The…

The Swiss bank also hired Mr. Wray, then a partner at King & Spalding in Washington, who served as head of the Department of Justice's crime department and oversaw the Enron task force. (Mr. Wray became director of the FBI three years…

This obituary is part of a series about people who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.In late 1983, a member of the Neonatal Department at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, had a question for Fred Figa, a…