Causes, Viruses: HPV, Galloway clip 2
Professor Galloway explains that viruses don't want to cause cancer, they just want to make more virus.
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1001. Causes, Viruses: HPV, Galloway clip 1
Professor Galloway explains that there are many HPVs that infect the genital tract and a set of those cause benign genital warts but another set is able to cause lesions that will go on and progress to cervical or other anal-genital cancers.
999. Causes, Viruses: HPV
In this section learn how viruses contribute to cancer development.
16552. Animation 25: Some viruses store genetic information in RNA.
David Baltimore and Howard Temin explain work on the Rous sarcoma virus.
16567. Biography 25: David Baltimore (1938- )
David Baltimore, Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
16834. Animation 40: Living things share common genes.
Mike Wigler shows how all organisms share similar genes, called homologs.
16568. Biography 25: Howard Martin Temin (1934-1994 )
Howard Temin, David Baltimore and Renato Dulbecco shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
1010. Diagnosis, Targeted therapies
Conventional cancer drugs are cellular poisons that block replication or some other aspect of cell growth. These drugs affect all cells – healthy or cancerous.
16569. Problem 25: Some viruses store genetic information in RNA.
Explore the reverse transcriptase mechanism.
1000. Causes, Viruses: HPV, Steinberg
Professor Steinberg explains that HPVs are a family of related viruses, and they're small DNA tumor viruses that can cause tumors in either their natural host or another organism.
1017. Pathways, Overview
The 3-D animations in this Pathway to Cancer section focuses on a single pathway that regulates growth and protein production.