HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – )
1936 –
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1967 CE
#12662
Herpes-type virus and chromosome marker in normal leukocytes after growth with irradiated Burkitt cells.
HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006) HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987) DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – ) HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – )
KOHN, G.
Hausen and colleagues showed for the first time that a cancer virus (Epstein-Barr virus) can transform healthy cells (lymphocytes) into cancer cells. This showed that viruses can cause cancer cell formation. (Order of…
1983 CE
#12663
A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,
Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1984 CE
#12664
A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.
Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…