Dairy Science

Unmasking the super foods (Baltimore Sun)

24 Jul 2008

These 10 nutrient-packed provisions can help us stay healthy and fit T he 32nd Street Farmers' Market in Baltimore opened last Saturday morning with four produce farmers unloading batches of fresh blueberries for sale. Two and a half hours later, the berries were gone - undoubtedly scooped up by patrons who covet not only the seasonal fruit's sweet taste and variety of uses, but its abundance ...

'Father of medical genetics' (Baltimore Sun)

24 Jul 2008

Professor explored inherited diseases Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a Johns Hopkins professor who pioneered the study of medical genetics and spent his career exploring how patients' genes predisposed them to medical disorders, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Towson. He was 86.

Victor A. McKusick, 86; Johns Hopkins physician pioneered genetics research (Los Angeles Times)

24 Jul 2008

The doctor linked diseases to specific genes, established one of the nation's first departments of medical genetics and was one of the first to propose sequencing the human genome. He was 86. Dr. Victor A. McKusick, the Johns Hopkins University physician who is widely regarded as the father of medical genetics, died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86 and died of complications from ...