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Radio 4,1 min

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell: “Nobody really believed it at first!”

The Life Scientific

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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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