Today's Globe: Harvard stem cell boost, abortion death case, lobster warning, Victor McKusick
British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to sponsor at least $25 million in work at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, one of the largest investments in stem cell research ever by a major pharmaceuticals company.
Former Cape Cod doctor Rapin Osathanondh, indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter after a woman he performed an abortion on died, has pleaded not guilty.
State public health officials are warning lobster lovers to avoid the tomalley, the soft green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters (third item).
Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a Johns Hopkins University physician widely regarded as the father of medical genetics, died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86 and died of complications from cancer.
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