Dr. Peter Nowell, Who Helped Transform Cancer Research, Dies at 88

Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Dr. Nowell and a colleague discovered the first genetic defect proven to cause cancer, which led to major advances by other scientists decades later.

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