Medical breakthrough puts Reno in spotlight
Judy Mikovits remembers that “eureka” moment when she realized that she and her team of researchers at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute in Reno had discovered a new retrovirus 
that could lead to a possible treatment, even a vaccine, to combat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
“It was January 22, and we were in a San Diego restaurant called the Yard House,” said Mikovits, who had gone there with fellow scientist Vincent Lombardi to present the results of their research to Frank Ruscetti and Robert Silverman, two of the world’s leading virologists.
“We kept waiting for them to say something,” Mikovits said. “I was nauseous. Bob (Silverman) waited a long a time, and then he looked up and said, ‘Well, this is going to change their world.’” And it has. Read full story:
