Anonymous12 days ago
J. Michael Bishop, the Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist who co-discovered that the genes responsible for cancer originate in normal cells rather than solely in viruses, died on March 20, 2026, in San Francisco at the age of 90. His work with Harold Varmus on proto-oncogenes fundamentally reshaped cancer biology and laid the intellectual foundation for dozens of targeted cancer therapies now in clinical use, from imatinib to trastuzumab.