DNA detective : molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff

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Lynda Villa-Komaroff, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard University, researches a protein which may be responsible for megalencephaly. As she approaches an experiment in which she has i...

Lynda Villa-Komaroff, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard University, researches a protein which may be responsible for megalencephaly. As she approaches an experiment in which she has invested ten years' work, the profile offers a meditation on the value of failure as a tool in science and a vision of a successful woman scientist.

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