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Article: SCIENCE: Aids: will the true story ever be told? He became one of the world's most famous scientists when he announced his discovery of HIV. Then Robert Gallo was accused of stealing his research. Steve Connor (left) investigates
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2002
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The discovery of the Aids virus has gone down in scientific
history as one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century medicine.
Finding the virus led to a reliable test for screening blood, which
ultimately saved the lives of tens of thousands of people. The
successful isolation of the virus from one of the first patients to
be diagnosed with Aids also enabled scientists to study its genetic
structure in fine detail. It opened the way to devising new drugs and
treatments, as well as developing a future vaccine which is widely
viewed as the only way of controlling a pandemic that has already
killed some 25 million people.
But the story of how rival camps of scientists - one led by Robert ...
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