An initial investigation found that Singh's car was turning left when the Xterra struck it broadside, police said.
Motorcyclist Killed Near Gaithersburg
A 26-year-old motorcyclist died yesterday after he tried to pass a vehicle using a right-turn-only lane and ran into a curb where the lane ends, Montgomery County police said yesterday.
Gary Anthony Davis of Germantown was thrown from his motorcycle after the vehicle lost control and crashed about 11:30 a.m. in the 9600 block of Wightman Road in the Gaithersburg area, police said. His passenger, Brandy Lynnwood, 22, of Germantown, suffered injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
Hopkins Forms Disease Analysis Institute
A new Johns Hopkins University institute will focus on the use of computers and information technology to identify diseases at early stages and improve treatment.
"Our mission is to develop a new field that we call computational medicine," said Raimond L. Winslow, director of the Institute for Computational Medicine.
Researchers will use advanced computational methods to analyze and model disease mechanisms "to understand, quantitatively, how diseases progress," Winslow said. "We want to be able to predict who is at risk of developing a disease and how to treat it more effectively."
Among the research focuses at the new institute will be biological systems modeling, computational anatomy and bioinformatics.
Biological systems modeling involves the use of computer models to unravel the molecular basis of human disease.
THE DISTRICT
NW Man Killed in Shooting Outside Party
A Northwest Washington man was killed early Saturday after a fight in his apartment building, police said yesterday.
Maurice Temoney, 22, who lived in a second-floor apartment in the 1700 block of Seventh Street, was found in the fourth-floor hallway of the building about 4:20 a.m. with apparent gunshot wounds to his body and head, a police spokesman said.
