Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone

Wylie W. Vale Jr. led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to stress.Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to stress, has died. He was 70.

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