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Worked out how the body regulates cholesterol, identifying the LDL receptor that clears it from the bloodstream — a discovery that explained why some people develop severe heart disease at a young age and helped open the path to statin drugs. He shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein for the work.