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...Disease Control that alerted doctors to the gathering epidemic and established that the infection was transmitted through blood transfusions, tainted needles and unprotected sex. It was Dr. Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris that first isolated the killer virus in 1983. It was Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who made it grow in the lab, which allowed for the development of an antibody test. It was the National Institutes of Health that funded the basic research on HIV and AIDS. It was the big drug companies like...
Like many other ambitious young scientists, Ho wanted to be the first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS. Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo beat him to it. (Ho came in fourth, after Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco.) Still, while working in Hirsch's lab, Ho became expert at detecting HIV in places where few were able to find it. He was the first to show that it grows in long-lived immune cells called macrophages and among the first to isolate it in the nervous system and semen. Just as important, he showed that there...
...meet the President of Ecuador? Be like Lorena Gallo. President Abdala Bucaram told the Ecuadorean-born Gallo, known in the U.S. by her married name, Lorena Bobbitt, that meeting her was "an extremely high honor." He added, "You look prettier than you do on television." He also gave her his CD, A Madman in Love...
...Americans have to pay a levy called the "generation-skipping tax," which is 55% on transfers of more than $1 million from a grandparent to a grandchild. But Dole once helped shrink even that paltry number at the urging of two of his biggest cash donors, Ernest and Julio Gallo. According to the Center for Public Integrity, the Gallos, who own the biggest wine-making company in the country, are Dole's largest financial backers, having given more than $1 million over the years. But that is a modest investment compared with the $80 million that the Gallos were able...
...WINEMAKERS ERNEST AND JULIO GALLO...