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Virus Hunting Robert Gallo

Virus Hunting By Robert Gallo

Virus Hunting by Robert Gallo

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Summary

The story of the search for the human retrovirus and of his own life as a viral-hunting scientists, told by the man who shared in the discovery of the AIDS virus and who isolated the first cancer-causing human retroviruses.

Virus Hunting Summary

Virus Hunting: Cancer, AIDS, and the Human Retrovirus: a Story of Scientific Discovery by 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..

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR004496368
9780465098064
0465098061
Virus Hunting: Cancer, AIDS, and the Human Retrovirus: a Story of Scientific Discovery by Robert Gallo
Robert Gallo
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Basic Books
1991-05-15
384
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