Description
Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology
📘 2022 Edition
Follow the people and experiments that shaped tumor virology. This history traces how investigations of cancer-associated viruses contributed to broader discoveries in molecular biology and biomedicine.
📚 Inside this eBook
- Early animal tumor-virus research and experimental models
- Epstein–Barr virus, hepatitis B and human cancer research
- Reverse transcriptase and the discovery of oncogenes
- RNA splicing, ras and the tumor suppressor p53
- HPV research and the development of cervical cancer vaccines
🔎 Why add it to your reading list?
The historical narrative adds context to concepts often encountered only as finished facts in textbooks. It is a useful choice for readers interested in how experimental tools, scientific debate and individual researchers influenced the development of cancer biology.
👩⚕️ Who is it for?
Cancer researchers, virologists, biomedical students and readers interested in the history of medicine.
📖 Book details
- Authors / editors: Gregory J. Morgan
- Edition / volume: 2022 Edition
- Year of supplied edition: 2022
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN: 9781421444024
- Format: English-language PDF eBook



