An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: October 12, 2025

VARMUS, Harold Eliot

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DNA related to the transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA.

Nature, 260, 170-73, 1976.

Discovery of the first “oncogene.

In 1989 Varmus and Bishop shared the Nobel Prize for in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes."



Subjects: BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Hereditary Cancers, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , ONCOLOGY & CANCER