Multimedia Collection
DNA Detective: Molecular Biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff
(Discovering Women series)
VHS
60 minutes
Q130 .D51 1995 tape 6
There are more cells in the brain than there are stars in the universe," says molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff. Studying the brain's hidden mysteries presents Villa-Kamaroff, an associate professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School, with an exciting challenge. Like a sleuth, she has to rely on any clues she can find and follow her instincts. Will they lead her down a blind alley - or to a scientific breakthrough? In the program, Villa-Komaroff and her colleagues research a protein which Villa-Komaroff believes may be implicated in a rare and devastating condition called megalencephaly, in which the fetal brain grows abnormally large. But it's and unproven theory, and Villa-Komaroff has already invested ten years of work in developing it. As she comes to a crucial experiment, Villa-Komaroff knows that "things just don't always happen the way you want them to" in science.
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