Word: huebner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rather, CBS News White House correspondent, and Lee Huebner, former speechwriter for President Nixon, were the only guests of the Watergate group who drew many students, Shrum said...
...instance. But scientists thus far have been unable to determine whether any of these particles could cause cancer; this is what sets the new find apart from earlier ones and makes scientists hopeful of further progress. "If this proves to be a true human virus," says Dr. Robert Huebner of the National Cancer Institute's viral carcinogenesis branch, "it will mean that we're light-years ahead of where we've been. It means we've reached a point that we didn't expect to reach for years...
...Robert Huebner of the NCI speculates that cancer is caused by a noninfectious virus that is a normal part of every living thing. According to Huebner, the virus, which he has labeled the "C particle," is a part of everyone's genetic heritage, a tiny bit of RNA that is passed vertically from one generation to another and perhaps helps normal development by causing the cells of an embryo to grow. The C particle should become inactive as the fetus matures; if it fails to do so, the result is the rapid cell growth that characterizes cancer...
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