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Virus Hunting - Robert Gallo

Virus Hunting

Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery

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Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
1993
Basic Books (Verlag)
978-0-465-09815-6 (ISBN)
CHF 29,95 inkl. MwSt
The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.

Robert Gallo is chief of the labouratory of Tumor Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a two-time winner of the coveted Albert Lasker prize, the highest honour in U.S. biomedical research. Dr. Gallo was, as reported in Science, the most-cited author of scientific literature in the world during the 1980s.

Some History Behind The Story * Becoming a Physician, Becoming a Scientist * The National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology * Microscopic Intruders The Discovery Of Cancer-Causing Retroviruses In Humans * The Story of Retroviruses and Cancer: From Poultry to People * Success, Defeat, Success * Discovery of a Cancer Virus: The First Human Retrovirus * Discovery of the Second Human Retrovirus (and How the HTLVs Produce Disease) The Discovery Of A Third Human Retrovirus: The AIDS Virus * A Single Disease with a Single Cause * Breaking Through: We Know How to Work with This Kind of Virus. * Making Progress, Making Sense: The Period of Intense Discovery * The Blood Test Patent Suit: Rivalry and Resolution A Scientists Look At The Science And Politics Of AIDS * The Alarm * How the AIDS Virus Works * Kaposis Sarcoma: A Special Tumor of AIDS * About Causes of Disease (and, in Particular, Why HIV Is the Cause of AIDS) * What We Can Do About AIDS and the AIDS Virus * Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.8.1993
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 226 mm
Gewicht 486 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-465-09815-0 / 0465098150
ISBN-13 978-0-465-09815-6 / 9780465098156
Zustand Neuware
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