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Spurgeon Lab

@spurgeonlab.bsky.social

Laboratory of Dr. Megan Spurgeon at the Morgridge Institute for Research and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. We study how DNA tumor viruses interact with their hosts to cause cancer.

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Spurgeon Lab @spurgeonlab.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The first official publication from the Spurgeon Lab! Check out the GEM review with @k4v1.bsky.social on tumor virus manipulation of host replisomes. Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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Kavi Mehta @k4v1.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

@spurgeonlab.bsky.social and I wrote a cool new review. Check it out! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

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Viruses and the host replisome: discovering oncogenic mechanisms of small DNA tumor viruses | Journal of Virology

Tumor viruses, or viruses that are etiological agents of tumorigenesis and/or cancer, were first discovered in the early 20th century when Peyton Rous isolated a “filterable agent” from chicken sarcom...

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