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Finding Her Nerve BY DWAYNE GODWIN & JORGE CHAM DESPITE EXPECTATIONS FOR WOMEN HER DREAMS OF BEING A SCIENTST RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI WAS BORN IN TURIN, ITALY, IN 1909 AT THE TIME, SHE WAS DRAWN TO STUDY MEDICINE AND SOON DISCOVERED A PASSION FOR THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM WERE INTERRUPTED WHEN MUSSOLINI'S GOWERNMENT PASSED LAWS BARRING JEWS FROM PROFESSIONAL CAREERS. INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF VIKTOR HAMBURGER, RITA BEGAN STUDYING HOW NERVES DEVELOPED IN CHICK EMBRYOs. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE WAR, RITA SERVED AS A DOCTOR FOR REFUGEES N FLORENCE. NOT GIVING UP, RITA SET UP A LABORATORY IN HER BEDROOM NERVE GROWTH WITHOUT LIMB ISSUE NORMAL FBER WITHOUT GROWTH SHE HAD TO BuLD「TWICE. AS HER FAMILY FLED THE DESTRUCTION OF WORLD WAR u. SHE CONFIRMED THAT CERTAIN TSSUES PRODUCE A CHEMICAL THAT ENCOURAGES THE GROWTH AND PROPAGATION OF NERVE CELLS. RITA DIED IN 2012 AT THE AGE WHEN THE WAR ENDED, SHE WAS NVITED TO THE U.S., WHERE SHE CO-DisCOVERED NERVE GROWTH FACTOR (NGF), A KEY CHEMICAL IN NEURAL DEVELOPMENT. SHE WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE 30 YEARS AGO IN 1986. LATER YEARS, RTA FOUGHT OF 103, DESPITE CHALLENGES, FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF SCIENCE AND STARTED A FOUNDATION TO INCREASE LITERACY FOR GIRLS IN AFRICA. SHE MAINTAINED: "ABOVE ALL, DONT FEAR DIFFICULT MOMENTS. THE BEST COMES FROM THEM." NGF TRANGCRIPTION OF GENES FOR o SURIVAL AND GROWTHo NGF IS NOW BEING USED AS AN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT FOR BRAN DISORDERS SUCH AS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

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