In an effort to make testing on HIV/AIDS drugs more successful and more productive, scientists have produced a distinctive strain of the human AIDS virus that is capable of infecting monkeys, specifically the pig-tailed macaque. This will allow these monkeys to be tested with newly created vaccines before they have to be tested on humans. [...]

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Twenty-five years ago a research team led by Luc Montagnier at the French Pasteur Institution in Paris was responsible for identifying HIV, thus changing the face of AIDS/HIV research, prevention and management. When approached by a colleague for help on determining the cause of AIDS, Montagnier eagerly accepted the challenge and he and his team [...]

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Just over fifty years ago, there were approximately fifty million smallpox cases in the world. In the 20th century alone, nearly 500 million deaths could be attributed to this disease; however, in 1979, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that due to vaccinations, smallpox had been completely eliminated from the world. Now, imagine that same [...]

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