German biologist Theodor Boveri observed early in the last century that cancer cells often harbor multiple copies of a subcellular structure that he had previously named the centrosome. He was also ...

In 1992, the Zoological Institute in Würzburg, part of the Theodor Boveri Institute of Biosciences at the University of Würzburg, underwent another transition, moving quarters to a more modern, ...

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Over a century ago, a German-born scientist experimenting with impregnated sea urchin eggs had an insight that led to one of the first modern theories of cancer. Theodor Boveri linked incorrect ...

The latest hope for stopping untreatable cancers traces its roots to a turn-of-the-century German zoologist, gazing into a microscope at the eggs of sea urchins. Studying the process of fertilization, ...

Based on: The Origin of Malignant Tumors. By Theodor Boveri. Translated by Marcella Boveri. Williams & Wilkins Company. 1929. pp. 119. Price $2.50. Select the format you want to export the citation of ...