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Frederick Sanger: Nobel prizewinning biochemist whose insulin and DNA work transformed genetics

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The biochemist, Fred Sanger, a former Head of the LMB’s PNAC Division, has died aged 95. He had the rare distinction of winning the Nobel Prize twice, in 1958 and 1960. More…