Article 3HREM Sir John Sulston, pioneering genome scientist, dies aged 75

Sir John Sulston, pioneering genome scientist, dies aged 75

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Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
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Sulston won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2002 for his work on genome sequencing

The pioneering geneticist Sir John Sulston has died, it has been confirmed.

The scientist led the UK side of the landmark Human Genome Project and founded and directed the Wellcome Sanger Institute near Cambridge, one of the country's leading biomedical institutions.

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