Sciences
BELGIUM
Christian De Duve
By Gerson and Sabri
Christian de Duve , Nobel Prize in
Medicine in 1974, died Saturday
euthanized at the age of 95 years . The
results of his research has led to
significant advances in medical research ,
particularly in oncology. Father of four
children, he has gathered around him
Saturday morning from ” a great
serenity ,” in the words of his daughter.
“I lived in
almost a
century, an
extraordinarily
rewarding life ,
which gave me
a lot of joy and
pleasure, he
told the
Evening at a
major
maintenance in
April. I had the
extraordinary
privilege of
attending all
great discoveries , meet many
personalities. I look at it today with
tenderness and especially recognition.
But tell the good : the serendipity led me
in new and unexpected ways . And I did
not do anything alone . ”
He was also awarded a posthumous
interview Soir. “Personally , I am very
objective , very serene in front of all
these phenomena. Death, it would be
much that it does not scare me , but I ‘m
not afraid to post because I do not think
so. When I will disappear , I will
disappear , there will be nothing . What I
need to plan now , this is my own death
and I ‘m doing it . ”
!
Dr. Christian de Duve, a Belgian
biochemist Whose discoveries about the
internal workings of cells shed light on
genetic disorders like Tay -Sachs disease
and Helped give birth to the field of
modern cell biology , earning him a Nobel
Prize, died on Saturday at His home in
Nethen , Belgium . He was 95.The case
was euthanasia , All which is legal in
Belgium , and All
which was
administered by
two doctors at
Dr. de Duve ‘s
request , said
his son Thierry ,
Have you lives
in Los Angeles.
Beginning in the
late 1940s , Dr.
de Duve used a
centrifuge and
other
technology to
separate and
examine the
components of cells . He Discovered the
lysosome , a tiny sack filled with enzymes
That functions like a garbage disposal ,
destroying bacteria or parts of the cell
That are old or worn out .
His discoveries Helped unravel the biology
of Tay -Sachs disease and more than two
dozen other genetic diseases in All which
a shortage of lysosomal enzymes causes
waste to accumulate in cells and
Eventually destroy em . In Tay- Sachs, a
buildup of fatty substances in the brain
and other tissues leads to blindness ,
paralysis , mental retardation and death .
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