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Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture, Kenneth Snelson’s “Needle Tower” ? and Eureka! ? it inspired a scientific breakthrough. Produced by Lu Olkowski.

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