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.
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Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery Robert Gallo
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.
Über Robert Gallo
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
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Virus Hunting: Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery Robert Gallo
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