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Weller, the award’s namesake and the symposium’s honoree, was a physician and virologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1954 for his work in tissue-culture research, which led to the development of vaccines for polio, chicken pox, measles, and other viral diseases. Weller died...
...strain, dubbed HeLa, was the first human tissue to be successfully kept alive as a culture. Since her death, Lacks' cells have been shot into space, infected with tuberculosis and zapped with radiation to test the effects of a nuclear bomb. HeLa helped develop the polio vaccine and drugs for everything from Parkinson's to AIDS. But Lacks' children, many of them too poor to afford medical care, were never consulted about or even thanked for their mother's involuntary gift to science. Journalist Rebecca Skloot's history of the miraculous cells reveals deep injustices in U.S. medical research--chief...
Further, because Tutu's medical records are already public - he is known to have had polio, prostate cancer and TB, all of which are influenced by genes - his genome will help scientists learn more about those diseases, Hayes says...
...hoping it won't come to that. He is not under any illusion that a successful antibody-based treatment will have the sweeping effect of the polio or measles or smallpox vaccines - essentially wiping out the diseases in treated populations. Instead, an ibalizumab-based therapy will be just one of many weapons against HIV, albeit a very powerful one. "At our first meeting on this, I said I have a strategy that I feel will work," Ho recalls. "It was truly my gut feeling...
...founded the Nobel Prize, the Polio vaccine, and France...