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Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of ...

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Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to ...

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From the discovery of reverse transcriptase to groundbreaking insights into HIV and cancer, David Baltimore left an indelible ...