jan 1, 1976 - The DNA of Normal Chicken Cells
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Dominique Stehelin, Harold Varmus, J. Michael Bishop, and Peter Vogt discover that normal chicken cell DNA contains a gene related to avian sarcoma virus oncogene (cancer-causing gene) that causes cancer in chickens. This finding ultimately leads to human oncogenes being discovered.
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Cancer
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