Aha Moment: Cell Tower

Studio 360

Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and—Eureka!-he was inspired to make a major breakthrough in biology. Lu Olkowski reports on the unlikely epiphany.

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