Ebert, who originated At The Movies with fellow critic Gene Siskel in Chicago in 1975, left television in 2006 after multiple cancer surgeries resulted in the critic losing his jaw and his ability to eat, drink and speak.

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When Hugh Martin, the chief executive of gene sequencing start-up Pacific Biosciences, discovered that he had multiple myeloma, he bent over backward to disclose the fact to his entire company in excruciating detail, and also to his investors, his business partners, and Fortune, which ran a story about the way he handled the decision.

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Most prominently, teenager Jesse Gelsinger died from multiple organ failure a few days after receiving a massive dose of virus-based gene therapy in a trial at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The British and Finnish scientists found women with multiple fibroids of both the uterus and skin were born with mutations in the fumarate hydratase (FH) gene.

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