Peyton Murphy (3 results)

J. exp. Med., 19. New York, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1914, 8°, IX, 609, pp., 48 Abbildungen, 77 Taf., Leinenband. and - Rous, Peyton: On Certaon Spontaneous Chicken Tumors as Manifestations of a single diseases. I.Spindle-Celled Sarcomata rifted with blood sinuses (pp.570-576, 2 Taf.). Peyton Rous: father of the tumor virus In 1910, Francis Peyton Rous (1879-1970) identified a transmissible avian tumor virus, a discovery that began the journey from tumor virus biology to tumor biology itself.

4 pp; 3 pp. Small closed tears or chipping along edges of pages. Ink stamp "Catalogued" on the first page of each offprint. Pages yellowed. Good. First Edition. The first paper has the ink stamp of "Franklin Paine Mall" on the first page. Peyton Rous was awarded one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966 "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses." These two papers were published in the year following the publication of Rous's initial paper on this subject, "A Sarcoma of the Fowl Transmissible by an Agent Separable from the Tumor Cells", which is Garrison-Morton 2637: "Original description of the chicken sarcoma (Rous sarcoma). More than 50 years later (1966) Rous shared the Nobel Prize with Charles Huggins for work on cancer. Rous demonstrated that sarcomatous tumors in hens could be transmitted to normal hens by the injection of cell-free filtrates (virus) of the original tumor. The Rous Sarcoma Virus [RSV] was the first oncovirus discovered.".

Paperback. Condition: new. Murphy, Brittney L (illustrator). Paperback. Written by four year-old Peyton Murphy, Fuzzy the Baby Bunny is the simple story of a wild bunny finding a new home. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.