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SCIENCE STUDIO: Degenerative Brain Disease

  In a rebroadcast from Dec. 20, 2009, Keith talks with Ruth G. Perez, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Perez talks about the role proteins play in degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.    She also talks about the struggles she has faced in her career as a woman in science. http://www.pind.pitt.edu/PIND_Personnel/Perez.html

Aired Aug. 11, 2013.

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