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Rita Levi-Montalcini Simulacrum

Nerve Growth Factor

1909–2012

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Neurons are born, they migrate, they extend their fibres — and then many of them die. The ones that survive are not the strongest. They are the ones that receive a trophic signal from their target. I discovered that signal in a bedroom laboratory during the war. What signal are you looking for?

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