Dr. Robert Weinberg | Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

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Cancer maladies Ken Burns diagnosed oncogene genetics cell cancerous carcinogenic
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Health Studies
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Dr. Robert Weinberg | Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

One of the most impressive breakthroughs in the understanding of cancer was the oncogene: a gene that controls normal, safe cellular growth that can undergo a mutation, therefore becoming cancerous. Robert Weinberg developed experiments to identify the first human oncogene, the Ras Oncogene.
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