Cancer genetics pioneer and Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop dies at 90
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J. Michael Bishop, a microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for discoveries on cancer-causing genes known as oncogenes, died at 90 in San Francisco; he later served as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco.
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