Spurgeon Lab

Spurgeon Lab

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Laboratory of Dr. Megan Spurgeon at the Morgridge Institute for Research and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. We study how DNA tumor viruses interact with their hosts to cause cancer.

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The first official publication from the Spurgeon Lab! Check out the GEM review with @k4v1.bsky.social on tumor virus manipulation of host replisomes.

Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology Tumor viruses, or viruses that are etiological agents of tumorigenesis and/or cancer, were first discovered in the early 20th century when Peyton Rous isolated a “filterable agent” from chicken sarcom...

@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out!

journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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