Word: bolognesi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hopes for an experimental vaccine sagged when Duke University's Dr. Dani Bolognesi and NCI's Dr. Robert Gallo, a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, reported that tests on chimpanzees had failed. Chimps, one of man's closest relatives, are considered critical to vaccine research. The idea of a vaccine is to trick the body into producing specific antibodies that can attack the invading virus. The research team had vaccinated six chimps with proteins from the outer shell of the AIDS virus, then injected them with live virus to test the vaccine's effectiveness. But within three weeks...