In Memoriam-December 2012

December 2012

ith the aging population and recognition that treatment of a patient’s pain is a key healthcare objective, more patients are taking pain medications that must be taken consistently to be effective. But at the same time, many of these same medications are subject to abuse. These benefits and dangers drive the need to test for patient compliance. Although urine has historically been the specimen ...

In Memoriam: Norton Zinder (1929–2012) Geneticist

Z inder, a superb geneticist (who also embraced biochemistry), died on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. He was 83. Zinder came of age at the dawn of microbial genetics. A prodigy with an eidetic memory, he was only 15 when he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where he built his first incubator for growing bacteria (a 60-W light bulb in a box with a thermostat). After e...

In memoriam: Dr. Toshio Tatara, 1937-2012.

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In Memoriam: Guy Dodson (1937–2012)

the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 (Figure 1). He stayed with her as a research fellow until her retirement in 1976. He married in 1965 his teammate Eleanor McPherson, an Australian with great mathematical skills. Together with two other fellows, Tom Blundell and M. Vijayan, they became the driving force that finally cracked the structure of insulin one summer day of 1969 – the month o...

Digest December 2012