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Robert Charles Gallo (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː l oʊ /; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher.He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and in the development of the HIV blood test, and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.
Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944 – August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith [2] and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year.
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American scientist . He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome [1][2] and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. [3][4] Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI).
Shiva Ayyadurai. V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai (born Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva[1] on December 2, 1963) is an Indian-American engineer, entrepreneur, and anti-vaccine activist. He has become known for promoting fake conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims. [2]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been this country’s public guide through the storm of COVID-19, also got his start in the midst of another pandemic: HIV/AIDS, which first appeared in the United ...
Recorded September 9, 2020. Francis Sellers Collins ForMemRS (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021 ...
Al Drago/Getty Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2021. Dr. Anthony Fauci is in recovery after contracting the West Nile virus. On Saturday, Aug. 24, a spokesperson for the 83-year-old former director of the ...