Discovering women. DNA detective [Videorecording] : molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff / WGBH/Boston.

Contributor(s): WGBH Educational Foundation | WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)Material type: FilmFilmReference number:32339432Series: WGBH collectionPublication details: Boston, Princeton, NJ, WGBH Educational Foundation; Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1995. Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) sd., col. 1/2 inOther title: DNA detectiveUniform titles: Discovering women (Television program) Subject(s): Villa-Komaroff, Lydia | Molecular biology -- Experiments | Women molecular biologists -- United States | Biographical filmsProduction credits: Producer, Elizabeth Arledge; executive producer, Judith Vecchione; narrator, Michelle Pfeiffer.Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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