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Paul C. Zamecnik, Biologist Who Helped Discover an RNA Molecule, Dies at 96

Paul C. Zamecnik, a molecular biologist whose determination to unlock the secrets of how a protein is made led to his co-discovery of transfer RNA, a molecule that is essential to the process, died on Oct. 27 at his home in Boston. He was 96. Full Article at The New York Times

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