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H. Gobind Khorana, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies

H. Gobind Khorana, who rose from poverty in rural India to become one of the world?s foremost biochemists and who shared the Nobel Prize for helping unravel how genetic information in a cell is used to make proteins vital for human life, died Nov. 9 at a rehabilitation facility in Concord, Mass. He was believed to be 89.