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Ep325 - Catherine Whitlock | Ten Women Who Changed Science and The World

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A Lovely Story About Rita

She set up a lab in her bedroom and used all sorts of, she was working on chicken brieze at the time because they provide a very easy way to study the immune system. She also had the help of her mother who stood at the door and barred anyone from entering while she was doing all these important experiments. And not only did she get some amazing results, and we tell the process of how she discovered the nerve growth factor in the book. But at the end of the experiments, bearing in mind this is war torn Italy with very scarce food supplies, she insisted that the whole family ette the eggs, which didn't go down well, but they did it nonetheless. So

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