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From a chicken sarcoma virus to the cell's own genes: Bishop and the origin of oncogenes

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Their best-known accomplishment was the identification of a cellular gene (c-src) that gave rise to the v-src oncogene of Rous Sarcoma Virus, a cancer-causing virus first isolated from a chicken sarcoma by Peyton Rous in 1910.
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