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DNA detective

Title
DNA detective / Elizabeth Arledge ; narrator, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Arledge, Elizabeth.
  • Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1957-
Description
1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in. VHS.
Summary
Lynda Villa-Komaroff, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard University, researches a protein which may be responsible for megaencephaly, in which the fetal brain grows abnormally large. 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.
Series Statement
  • The WGBH collection
  • Discovering women
Uniform Title
  • Discovering women ; 6.
  • WGBH collection.
Alternative Title
DNA detective : molecular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Subjects
Note
  • Cataloged from credits and cassette container.
  • Title on cassette container: DNA detective : molecular biologist LydiaVilla-Komaroff.
  • Originally broadcast as a television program in 1994.
Audience (note)
  • General.
OCLC
  • 32339432
  • ocm32339432
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries