Born 7 Mar 1938. quotes
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American #biochemist and #virologist who, at the age of 37, shared the Nobel Prize for #Physiology or #Medicine in 1975 with Howard M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. Although the three scientists had made discoveries about ways in which #tumour #viruses and the #genetic material in #cells interact, Drs. Baltimore and Temin, working separately and using different approaches discovered #retroviruses--viruses with an #RNA #genome. Diseases such as #AIDS and #feline #leukemia are caused by retroviruses. That led to the isolation of the AIDS virus and to the development not only of many modern biological techniques but also the concept of oncogene--a gene that when mutated can produce uncontrolled cell proliferation.
