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RNA Tumor Viruses, Oncogenes, Human Cancer and AIDS: On the Frontiers of Understanding - Proceedings of the International Conference on RNA Tumor Viruses in Human Cancer, Denver, Colorado, June 10-14, 1984 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Philip Furmanski, Jean Carol Hager, Marvin A. Rich
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R5,895
Discovery Miles 58 950
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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We stand today on the threshold of a new understanding of cancer.
Primarily through the powerful tools of molecular biology, unified
hypotheses explaining the origins of the disease are emerging and
rapidly being validated. This volume, which presents the latest
findings from laboratories throughout the world on the role of RNA
tumor viruses in cancer, is a celebration of these achievements and
a prediction of further progress leading ultimately to the control
of the disease. It is important in this context to recall the
natural history or life cycle of RNA cancer virology. From the
earliest days of the science, when viruses were first recognized as
distinct biologic agents of etiologic significance, their role in
cancer was proposed and hotly debated. The critical early
discoveries, even those made as recently as 25 years ago, were met
with rejection; not skepticism or cautious restraint, but outright
rejection. During the 60's, there was a gradual acceptance of the
association between viruses and cancer, the result of landmark
studies in experimental systems, and this led to a frenzy of
activity in the field. There followed another period of doubt and
uncertainty, due to the difficulty in attempting to apply directly,
and in retrospect inappropriately, the tenets of infectious disease
to human cancers, only to have the field resurrected, revitalized
and redirected by the explosion of progress in molecular biology
and genetics.
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RNA Tumor Viruses, Oncogenes, Human Cancer and AIDS: On the Frontiers of Understanding - Proceedings of the International Conference on RNA Tumor Viruses in Human Cancer, Denver, Colorado, June 10-14, 1984 (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Philip Furmanski, Jean Carol Hager, Marvin A. Rich
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R5,926
Discovery Miles 59 260
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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We stand today on the threshold of a new understanding of cancer.
Primarily through the powerful tools of molecular biology, unified
hypotheses explaining the origins of the disease are emerging and
rapidly being validated. This volume, which presents the latest
findings from laboratories throughout the world on the role of RNA
tumor viruses in cancer, is a celebration of these achievements and
a prediction of further progress leading ultimately to the control
of the disease. It is important in this context to recall the
natural history or life cycle of RNA cancer virology. From the
earliest days of the science, when viruses were first recognized as
distinct biologic agents of etiologic significance, their role in
cancer was proposed and hotly debated. The critical early
discoveries, even those made as recently as 25 years ago, were met
with rejection; not skepticism or cautious restraint, but outright
rejection. During the 60's, there was a gradual acceptance of the
association between viruses and cancer, the result of landmark
studies in experimental systems, and this led to a frenzy of
activity in the field. There followed another period of doubt and
uncertainty, due to the difficulty in attempting to apply directly,
and in retrospect inappropriately, the tenets of infectious disease
to human cancers, only to have the field resurrected, revitalized
and redirected by the explosion of progress in molecular biology
and genetics.
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