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• Alan Gregg Papers added
  Alan Gregg (1890-1957) was a career Rockefeller Foundation officer, and a leader in the fields of public health, medical education and research.
  (Available March 2008)

• Maxine Singer Papers added
  Maxine Singer (b. 1931) is an American molecular biologist who made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code. She also served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
  (Available December 2007; announcement, updated March 2008)

• Arthur Kornberg Papers added
  Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007) was an American biochemist who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid."
  (Available October 2007; press release, updated March 2008)

• Sol Spiegelman Papers added
  Sol Spiegelman (1914-1983) was an American molecular biologist whose discoveries laid the foundations of recombinant DNA technology. He received the 1974 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research "for his contributions to molecular biology including techniques of molecular hybridization and the first synthesis of an infectious nucleic acid."
  (Available July 2007; press release, updated March 2008)

• Mary Lasker Papers added
  Mary Lasker (1900-1994) was co-founder of the Lasker Foundation which fosters prevention and treatment of disease by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for her work.
  (Available June 2007; press release, updated March 2008)

Updates

• All of the Profiles in Science collections were refreshed and updated. 6,208 new documents were added to existing collections: Joshua Lederberg Papers (6,107), Mary Lasker Papers (15), Rosalind Franklin Papers (14), Harold Varmus Papers (11), Edward D. Freis Papers (10), Arthur Kornberg Papers (10), Virginia Apgar Papers (9), Sol Spiegelman Papers (9), Salvador E. Luria Papers (6), Maxine Singer Papers (6), Michael Heidelberger Papers (4), Julius Axelrod Papers (2), Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers (2), Francis Crick Papers (1), C. Everett Koop Papers (1), and Reports of the Surgeon General (1.) Links to transcripts and optical character recognized (OCR) documents were made prominent as alternatives to PDF format files.

• All of the Profiles in Science collections were refreshed and updated. 80 new documents were added to existing collections: Edward D. Freis Papers (41), Oswald T. Avery Collection (19), Virginia Apgar Papers (14), Salvador E. Luria Papers (3), Harold Varmus Papers (2), and Regional Medical Programs Collection (1.) 343 transcripts of handwritten documents were added, making these documents searchable.

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