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And their efforts had been allegedly delayed by Gallo'sinactivated antibodies, I reflected."Nor was the NCI research marked by great longevity. Gallo'sannouncement of forty-eight isolates of HTLV-III came justtwelve days past the first anniversary of the April 11, 1983, NCImeeting in which the researcher swore he would "nail down" thecause of AIDS. Meanwhile, at the University of California in SanFrancisco, it took Dr. Jay Levy about eight months to gathertwenty isolates of a virus he called AIDS-associated retrovirus, orARV, which he too believed to be identical to LAV. Levy'sresearch was hampered by lack of resources and did not begin inearnest until after the arrival of his long-sought flow hood and therelease of UC research funds impounded the previous autumn."[22]And all the discoveries used methods and materials developed,perfected, and supplied by Dr. Gallo, I realized.The next day, I learned that the testing methods and reagents foridentifying RNA reverse transcriptase in virus-infected cells aswell as antibodies to detect retroviruses, Gallo and coworkersdeveloped more than ten years earlier than had been publicized.[22-27]Gallo was among the world's champions at quickly identifyingreverse transcriptase enzyme and RNA retroviruses. Long beforeidentifying the growth hormone interleuken-II [26,27,29] Galloand coworkers identified more than a dozen human lymphocyteand RNA tumor virus growth stimulants. [30]His primary business was allegedly trying to determine the causeof leukemia, a cancer associated with the rapid proliferation ofwhite blood cells. Thus, methods and materials used to increasethe reproductive rate of RNA retroviruses and the white bloodcells they infected, Gallo and company researched in depth in theearly 1970s. It was highly suspicious then that following a decadeof successfully doing so, he was suddenly unable to keep RNAretrovirus-infected lymphocytes alive.So, I considered, if this was a lame excuse to quit searching forthe easily isolated AIDS virus, then what was his realmotivation?As "most CDC researchers privately believed," [22] Shilts wrote,it is inconceivable that Gallo would not have readily isolated the"true" AIDS virus well before 1982 given his formidablebackground and resources."What delayed the NCI, therefore, was not the difficulty infinding the virus but their reluctance to even look." [22]With all the glory attached to the earliest discovery of the AIDSvirus, what powerful force could have moved the world's citadelof retrovirus research - Gallo and the NCI - away from thechallenge that could have been met so handily?There were few plausible explanations - only more horrifying