Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Susan Shand, a journalist in Washington, needed wine for a dinner party she was hosting, she headed for the store to buy her favorite brand: Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Later that evening, however, she discovered that she had bought Turning Leaf, a new Gallo wine, instead. "I looked like an idiot," she recalls...
...FRANCISCO: A federal jury put aside the wrath of grape magnate Jess Jackson, denying winery Kendall-Jackson's claim that industry giant E&J Gallo deliberately copied its bottle. The suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just...
...causes AIDS, developing an HIV-antibody test, identifying proteins that seem to protect some people from AIDS--although it took a decade for the controversy surrounding his role as co-discoverer of the virus to dissipate. After he was officially cleared of charges of scientific misconduct in 1993, Gallo left the NCI to set up his own virology institute at the University of Maryland...
Working in Gallo's lab at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1980s, Wong-Staal discovered why HIV is so deadly. It is an extremely changeable virus that rarely makes a perfect copy of itself. Among the resulting mutants are viruses that can resist drugs and render conventional vaccines worthless...
These findings led Wong-Staal to shift her focus from directly attacking the virus to bolstering the immune system with the tools of gene therapy. In 1990 she left Gallo's lab to head the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Although it may take years, she believes that gene therapy--with its promise of cheaper drugs and milder side effects--could provide the best AIDS treatment...