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J. Michael Bishop (1936-Present).
Profiles American biologist J. Michael Bishop (1936- ), provided by Genentech, Inc. Discusses Bishop's research of oncogenes, which are normal genes that control growth in every living cell but that under certain conditions can turn cancerous. Details his awards, including the Nobel Prize, which he was awarded in 1989 along with partner Harold Varmus.
How to Win the Nobel Prize
In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop giv...
J. Michael Bishop
This oral history with J. Michael Bishop is one in a series documenting bioscience and biotechnology in Northern California. After arriving at UCSF in 1968, Bishop was soon joined by Harold E. Varmus with whom he established a partnership legendary for its length and productivity. In a seminal publication of 1976, they established the proto-oncogene as a normal cell component and precursor of oncogenes. In 1989, Bishop and Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this research. With some reluctance, Bishop agreed to become UCSF Chancellor in 1998. His highly productive eleven years saw the creation and staffing of the Mission Bay campus and record-breaking fundraising success, among other important events he oversaw. The oral history consists of five interviews conducted in 2016 and 2017, with an introduction by colleagues Bruce Alberts and Harold Varmus.
Genes and Cancer
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Outline for Murder
In his long career as an English teacher at Holy Trinity High School, Michael Bishop felt that he was as good at reading people as he was at reading books. That all changes when he discovers the body of the school's highly successful but universally disliked football coach, Albert Zappala. Even more disturbing is the news that the coach, whose net worth was in the millions, was murdered. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, including students, colleagues, and even the Sisters who run the school. Bishop's skill in reading people is put to the ultimate test. Like Captain Ahab searching for the answers in his pursuit of the white whale, Bishop searches into the dark past for the key that will unlock the mystery. Will the truth destroy his belief in the basic goodness of man?
Murder on the Marginal Way
Veteran English teacher/amateur sleuth Michael Bishop visits Ogunquit, Maine for a week's vacation before the start of another school year. His hopes for relaxation are quickly dashed when he discovers the body of Amy Walsh, a former student, on the rocks below the scenic Marginal Way. After the authorities find his hat at the scene, he becomes a suspect in her death. Fearing the negative effects of a murder investigation on tourism, some influential community leaders pressure the police to dismiss the case as an accident. Bishop, however, isn't convinced. As he begins to question her friends, business associates, and others, he discovers that behind the façade of this idyllic town is a trio of powerbrokers who seemingly will stop at nothing to maintain their wealth and power.In this fast-paced mystery, Bishop, battling some lapses in memory and troubled by reports of chaos at school, again confronts both the good and evil in human nature in his relentless pursuit of the truth.
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A Few Last Words for the Late Immortals
This retrospective Michael Bishop collection of fifty short pieces (thirty-four stories, fifteen poems or prose-poems, and one amusing Moon-based play about writing SF, "The Grape Jelly and Mustard Method") spans the author's entire career, from "Asytages's Dream," written while Bishop was a college student, to "Yahweh's Hour," an acerbic but moving work of science-fantasy political satire composed in 2020. The collection's most distinctive attribute, however, lies in the fact that no contribution is longer than 3,000 words and most are shorter, a kind of Palm-of-the-Hand Stories for lovers of short fiction, heartfelt pieces that afford the reader as much meat as they do flash. "A Few Last W...
Winning Ticket
Michael Bishop, veteran English teacher and amateur sleuth, faces a baffling case as one of his colleagues wins a Mega Millions Jackpot and shortly thereafter dies in suspicious circumstances. Hampered by a memory that sometimes fails him, he doggedly pursues the truth regardless of where it leads.At the same time, twenty-two-year-old blonde bombshell Lulu Pitts is appointed assistant principal even though she clearly lacks experience and is unprepared for the job. Outraged that she didn't get her old job back, Sister Pat, a.k.a. Sister Meany, sets out on a path of revenge. When a student brings a revealing photo of Lulu to school, Sister Pat pounces. Bishop has little choice but to tangle once more with his longtime nemesis and her cohort, Sister Ann, a.k.a. Mayhem.This fast-paced mystery features unexpected plot twists, some familiar characters, glimpses of life in upstate New York, and lessons learned about the human tendency to yield to our inner demons.
