Mike Robins, Cancer Biologist, Dies

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Mike Robins, who has died aged 86, was a physiologist and cancer biologist

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Mike Robins was a physiologist and cancer biologist whose research focus was on the growth of cells.

His particular interest was marine hydroids and the ecology of Dead Man’s Fingers (Alcyoniums ) During a summer diving season in Antarctica in 1970 he found and named a new hydroid species Monobrachium antarcticum.

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