Discovering women.

Discovering women. molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff / DNA detective [Videorecording] : DNA detective. WGBH/Boston. - Boston, Princeton, NJ, WGBH Educational Foundation; Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1995. - 1 videocassette (60 min.) sd., col. 1/2 in. - WGBH collection. .

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Originally broadcast on the PBS television program, Discovering women.

Producer, Elizabeth Arledge; executive producer, Judith Vecchione; narrator, Michelle Pfeiffer. Producer, Elizabeth Arledge; executive producer, Judith Vecchione; narrator, Michelle Pfeiffer.

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 sucessful woman scientist.


VHS format.

FFH 5675 Films for the Humanities & Sciences


Villa-Komaroff, Lydia.


Molecular biology--Experiments.
Women molecular biologists--United States.
Biographical films.