An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

BISHOP, John Michael

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DNA related to the transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA.

Nature, 260, 170-73, 1976.

Discovery of the first “oncogene. “ Varmus and Bishop shared the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1989. The paper was co-authored by D. Stehelin and P. Vogt, neither of whom shared in the prize.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Hereditary Cancers, ONCOLOGY & CANCER