What year?
I've got a Rous sarcoma virus isolated tru filtration and used to infect chicken with cancers in 1911. Used in mass embro transfection in the 50ish.
Although it was known from the late 19th century that a non-bacterial infectious disease was damaging tobacco crops, it was not until 1930 that the infectious agent was determined to be a virus. It is the first pathogen identified as a virus.
RSV was discovered in 1911 by Peyton Rous, working at Rockefeller University in New York City, by injecting cell free extract of chicken tumour into healthy Plymouth Rock chickens. The extract was found to induce oncogenesis. The tumour was found to be composed of connective tissue (a sarcoma).[1][2] Thus, RSV became known as the first oncogenic retrovirus that could be used to study the development of cancer molecularly
You got me beat, sounds like viruses have been around for awhile.
Tobacco mosaic virus was the first.
What year? I've got a Rous sarcoma virus isolated tru filtration and used to infect chicken with cancers in 1911. Used in mass embro transfection in the 50ish.
Late nineteenth century
Although it was known from the late 19th century that a non-bacterial infectious disease was damaging tobacco crops, it was not until 1930 that the infectious agent was determined to be a virus. It is the first pathogen identified as a virus.
RSV was discovered in 1911 by Peyton Rous, working at Rockefeller University in New York City, by injecting cell free extract of chicken tumour into healthy Plymouth Rock chickens. The extract was found to induce oncogenesis. The tumour was found to be composed of connective tissue (a sarcoma).[1][2] Thus, RSV became known as the first oncogenic retrovirus that could be used to study the development of cancer molecularly
You got me beat, sounds like viruses have been around for awhile.
Good call,
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