Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal was the first scientist to clone HIV, helping lead to blood tests and better treatments for the virus. She says that her main motivation “is simply the satisfaction of making discoveries, finding things out that no one knew before.”
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Isabel Morgan’s work was a critical step in the journey toward a killed-virus polio vaccine.
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It was believed that the polio virus directly attacked the central nervous system until Dr. Dorothy Horstmann made a groundbreaking discovery about the mechanism involved with the spread of Polio in the body.
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Dr. Charlotte Friend was a virologist and cancer researcher whose research helped to change the way we think about cancer in humans.
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