#Italian-American #neurologist who shared the #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine in 1986 (wi…
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#Italian-American #neurologist who shared the #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine in 1986 (with Stanley Cohen) for her discovery of #NGF (nerve growth factor), which #stimulates and #influences both the normal and abnormal the #growth of #nerve cells in the body.
In Italy, as a Jew, during WW II she was denied an academic career by Mussolini's laws, so she set up a laboratory in her home to study the growth of nerve fibers in #chicken #embryos. In 1952, while at a #cellculture laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, she found effective new ways to detect a chemical exuded by #tumors that produced astonishing growth of #nervefibers.
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