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Professor Euan Wallace AM appointed Dean, Sub-Faculty of Clinical and Molecular Medicine; Professor Euan Wallace AM appointed Dean, Sub-Facult ...

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James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped launch a revolution in biology and medicine, died Thursday at age 97. He died in hospice care after a brief ...