Artificial sweetener saccharin removed from FDA’s original GRAS list pending new scientific study
On Sept. 29, 1981, the artificial sweetener saccharin, included in U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) original GRAS…
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A virus (the Epstein-Barr virus) was linked to human cancer (Burkitt lymphoma) for the first time
In 1964, a new herpesvirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), was discovered in cultured tumor cells derived from a Burkitt…
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NIH scientists first identified type II cell of pulmonary alveolus as the cell of origin of the common alveologenic tumours of the lungs
In 1939, Hugh G. Grady and Harold L. Stewart first identified the type II cell of the pulmonary…
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Radium was found effective in the treatment of tumors
In 1903, radium was found effective in the treatment of tumors which Marie and Pierre Curie had isolated,…
