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Last week provided a dramatic climax to this improbable real-life tale as Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 77, now with the National Council of Scientific Research in Rome, and Stanley Cohen, 63, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The pair, who met in St. Louis in 1953 at Washington University, found the first of the body's many "growth factors": proteins that guide the development of immature cells. Said Nobel Committee Member Kerstin Hall: "Every single discovery in the field of cell growth factors has followed closely in the footsteps of Levi...
From her earliest experiments, Levi-Montalcini, who holds both Italian and American citizenship, focused on the nervous system. Before her discovery, scientists did not understand how organs signaled developing nerve cells to link up with them. It was Levi-Montalcini who first suggested in 1951 that the signal might come from a growth-stimulating chemical in the cells targeted by the nerves. Her hunch was confirmed in 1952 when she observed that single nerve cells, taken from chick embryos and cultured with tissue from mouse tumors, sprouted nerve fibers that reached out "like the rays of the sun." Her conclusion...
...Levi-Montalcini, the award assuaged memories of earlier frustrations. "Once Italy was not a country for research," she said in Rome. "Now, suddenly, things have changed, and this makes me immensely happy...
...table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often wears a studiedly scruffy uniform: a cotton work shirt, faded Levi's and well-worn cowboy boots. "This is who I am," he claims...
...work with an AIDS victim, the company let the objectors resign and kept the disease victim in | his post. Says Nancy L. Merritt, a BankAmerica vice president: "We recognize the therapeutic value of employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim who was allowed to stay on the job as a supervisor declares, "I do not get the feeling here that I'm a leper...