Ku Holo La Komohana (“Sail On to the Western Sun”), Hokule‘a's 2007 Voyage to Japan, took place to honor and perpetuate historic cross-cultural connections and intercultural exchanges between Hawai’i and Japan which followed King David Kalakaua's 1881 Journey to Japan. Hokule‘a sailed ...
a pioneer in tumor virus research at Berkeley (University of California). This is where he began to work on the Rous Sarcoma Virus (RSV), the focus of his research for decades to come and one of the areas where his seminal findings gained him worldwide recognition and in 1982...
who would also become an important and lifelong scientific colleague with whom he published over 35 papers between 1959 and 1992.In 1961 Saburo accepted a postdoctoral position in the US, joining the laboratory of Harry Rubin, a pioneer in tumor virus research at Berkeley (University of California...
By 1961, their interests had shifted to oncogenic retroviruses, and they left Osaka for Harry Rubin's lab at UC Berkeley to work on Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), an RNA tumor virus that induces sarcomas in chickens. The startling discovery of a virus that causes cancer was made by Peyton Rous...