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One Renegade Cell Robert Weinberg

One Renegade Cell By Robert Weinberg

One Renegade Cell by Robert Weinberg


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For everyone whose life has been touched by cancer, "One Renegade Cell" tells the story of the search for the ultimate causes of this dreaded disease. 2 line drawings.

One Renegade Cell Summary

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by Robert Weinberg

Cancer research has reached a major turning point, and no one is better qualified to explain the past two deacades' dramatic leaps forward in understanding this disease than world-renowned molecular biologist Robert Weinberg, director of the Oncology Research labouratory at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In One Renegade Cell , Weinberg presents a state-of-the-art account of how cancer begins and how, one day, it will be cured.

About Robert Weinberg

A Founding Member of Whitehead Institute, Robert A. Weinberg is a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries of the first human oncogene,a gene that causes normal cells to form tumors,and the first tumor suppressor gene. Weinberg, who received his Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, has held research positions at the Weizmann Institute and the Salk Institute. In 1982, Weinberg helped found Whitehead Institute, joined the faculty as a professor of biology at MIT, and published his landmark paper "Mechanism of Activation of a Human Oncogene" in the journal Nature. In 1999, another major paper, "Creation of Human Tumor Cells with Defined Genetic Elements," was also published in Nature.

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GOR001182097
9780465072767
0465072763
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by Robert Weinberg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
1999-09-17
176
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