A personal sixty-year tour of genetics and medicine.
The past 60 years surely constitute a Golden Age for biomedical science, and for medical genetics in particular. A personal experience began with an encounter with inborn errors of metabolism, selection, and the incidences of hereditary diseases, and peaked with molecular biology, virology, and cytogenetics, finally focusing all three on the problem of cancer.
Knudson
Alfred G
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Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA. Alfred.Knudson@fccc.edu
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