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Oncogenes; an Introduction to the Concept of Cancer Genes
Burck, Kathy B.; Liu, Edison T.; Larrick, James W.
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Description for Oncogenes; an Introduction to the Concept of Cancer Genes
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, 33 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
"Cancer viruses" have played a paradoxical role in the history of cancer research. Discovered in 1911 by Peyton Rous (1) at the Rockefeller Institute, they were largely ignored for several decades. Witness his eventual recognition for a Nobel Prize, but not until 1966-setting an all time record for latency, and testimony to one more advantage of longevity. In the 1950s, another Rockefeller Nobelist, Wendell Stanley, spearheaded a campaign to focus attention on viruses as etiological agents in cancer, his plat form having been the chemical characterization of the tobacco mosaic virus as a pure protein-correction, ribonucleoprotein-in 1935 (2). This doctrine ... Read more
"Cancer viruses" have played a paradoxical role in the history of cancer research. Discovered in 1911 by Peyton Rous (1) at the Rockefeller Institute, they were largely ignored for several decades. Witness his eventual recognition for a Nobel Prize, but not until 1966-setting an all time record for latency, and testimony to one more advantage of longevity. In the 1950s, another Rockefeller Nobelist, Wendell Stanley, spearheaded a campaign to focus attention on viruses as etiological agents in cancer, his plat form having been the chemical characterization of the tobacco mosaic virus as a pure protein-correction, ribonucleoprotein-in 1935 (2). This doctrine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387964232
SKU
V9780387964232
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