Francis Peyton Rous (October 5, 1879, Texas – February 16, 1970, New York City) was an American pathologist whose discovery of cancer-inducing viruses earned him a share of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966. October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) None. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...

Rous grew up in Baltimore and was educated at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Michigan. He joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) in New York City in 1909 and remained there throughout his career. In 1910 Rous found that sarcomas in hens could be transmitted to fowl of the same inbred stock not only by grafting tumour cells but also by injecting a submicroscopic agent extractable from them; this discovery gave rise to the virus theory of cancer causation. Although his research was derided at the time, subsequent experiments vindicated his thesis, and he received belated recognition in 1966 when he was awarded (with Charles B. Huggins) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. ... The Johns Hopkins University is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th street on York Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... -1... A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. ... boneysperm may refer to the following:- A hen is a female chicken. ... In medicine, grafting is a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply. ... Tumor (American English) or tumour (British English) originally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ... The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) A bacteriophage virus A virus is a submicroscopic obligate parasitic particle that infects cells in biological organisms. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Dr. Charles Breton Huggins (September 22, 1901 – January 12, 1997) was a Canadian-born American physician and physiologist and cancer researcher at the University of Chicago specialising in prostate cancer. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...

Aside from cancer research, Rous did investigations of liver and gallbladder physiology, and he worked on the development of blood-preserving techniques that made the first blood banks possible. The liver is one of the largest internal organs of the human body. ... Gall bladder Digestive system diagram showing the bile duct The gallbladder (or cholecyst) is a pear-shaped organ that stores about 50 ml of bile (or gall) until the body needs it for digestion. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ... A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusions. ...

See also

• Rous sarcoma virus, src

Rous sarcoma virus was discovered in 1911 by Peyton Rous, by injecting cell free extract of chicken tumour into healthy chickens. ... Src is a family of proto-oncogenes that may lead to cancer. ...

External links

• Nobel biography

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