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Nobel-winning scientist 'deserved to lose job' over comments

One of Britain’s top scientists has supported the condemnation of Tim Hunt, who quit his job in the wake of controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

world

Nobel winner Tim Hunt sorry for ‘girls’ comments

Scientist Nurse wrong to use language of terror

business

Pfizer quizzed by UK MPs on takeover plan

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Former IRA leader toasts the Queen

world

Scientists unlock breast cancer gene's secret

Cancer-causing secret discovered

SCIENTISTS have uncovered one of the breast cancer-causing secrets of a gene that blights the lives of generations of related women.

Thu, 21 Nov, 2002

Britons win nobel prize

Two British scientists and an American researcher today won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.

Mon, 07 Oct, 2002

Scientists issue warning on net cancer 'cures'

Some Internet websites promoting "alternative" cures for cancer can seriously harm patients who follow their advice, scientists in Britain warned today.

Tue, 20 Aug, 2002

Mushrooms could prevent cancer, says research

Research in the Far East on the healing properties of some mushrooms could lead to new methods of treatment and prevention of cancer in the West, a report by a leading health charity said today.

Sun, 18 Aug, 2002

30% women fail to respond to cancer drug

SCIENTISTS now know why one in three women fail to respond to a leading breast cancer treatment.

Fri, 26 Jul, 2002