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PITTSBURGH — A coroner has concluded that the death of a Pittsburgh medical researcher found with cyanide in her body last fall was a suicide.

Authorities say co-workers found 35-year-old Nicole Kotchey of Ross Township on the floor of her office at the Magee Women’s Research Institute in November. She died about four hours later.

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