Src Mutations and Cancer

By Megan Knight, BSc In 1911, Francis Peyton Rous made a groundbreaking discovery that certain types of viruses could trigger sarcoma formation in chickens. At this time, when filtration methods that purified particles smaller than both eukaryotic and bacterial cells had just been developed, Rous injected a filtrate containing sarcoma cells of a chicken into another chicken. In the following […]

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