Nobel Scientist's Cancer Discovery Legacy
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J. Michael Bishop, Nobel laureate and pioneer in cancer research, has passed away at 90. Alongside Harold Varmus, he won the 1989 Nobel Prize for discovering cancer-causing genes in healthy cells. Bishop, a former chancellor at UCSF, was inspired by a local doctor to pursue science. His groundbreaking work on oncogenes in chickens revolutionized cancer research and led to targeted drugs like Herceptin and Gleevec.
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