Tall with dark green pointy leafs, the neem tree from India is known as the village pharmacy. As a child Sonia Arora recalls visiting India and seeing villagers using the neem bark to clean their teeth. Arora's childhood memories have developed into a scientific fascination with natural products and their power to cure illnesses. An assistant professor at Kean University in New Jersey is helping Arora to fight AIDS. Arora and the assistant presented their data at a postersessio at the Experimental Biology 2012 meeting in San Diego. Her results indicate that there are compounds in neem extracts that target a protein essential for HIV to replicate. If further studies support her findings, Arora's work may create a cure for HIV.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244439.php
This is fascinating! It’s simply amazing that with our incredible technology and resources in our developed areas, we are unable to solve this “incurable” disease. I believe we should give more credit to children, and especially people in under-developed areas to, if given the resources, be able to solve many issues.
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