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Happy 88th birthday to Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier - join us in congratulating him!
Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.
In 1983, Luc Montaigner and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discovered a retrovirus in patients with swollen lymph glands that attacked lymphocytes - a kind of blood cell that is very important to the body's immune system. Retroviruses are viruses whose genomes consist of RNA and whose genes can be incorporated into host cells' DNA. The retrovirus, later named Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), proved to be the cause of the immunodeficiency disease AIDS. This discovery has been crucial in radically improving treatment methods for AIDS sufferers.
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