Now comes Robert Gallo, codiscoverer of the HIV virus and director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, with a glimmer of hope.

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But this time the winner, GeneGenie27, was actually human a 20-year-old Columbia University undergrad with a knack for virology.

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