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Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell: “Nobody really believed it at first!”
Dame Nancy talks about the shock experimental finding which turned her from a highly successful career in researching the body’s metabolism to the challenging field of brain science. Against everyone’s expectations, she discovered that a molecule of the immune system caused brain damage during a stroke.
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