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http://www.inadreammovie.com/
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Piece Description
This story profiles Don Ingber a noted cell biologist from Harvard Medical School & Children's Hospital in Boston. Ingber introduced the concept that living cells stabilize their internal cytoskeleton, and control their shape and mechanics, using an architectural system first described by Buckminster Fuller, known as "tensegrity." This story aims to explain to a general listener a view of something incredibly fundamental, yet little known to a layperson - how nature builds and is structured on a cellular level. This story explains how the cytoskeleton works, how Ingber made this discovery and what this means for understanding disease. First broadcast on PRI's Studio 360 on May 12, 2006
Broadcast History
First broadcast on PRI's Studio 360 on May 12, 2006
Transcript
Narration: The first time Don Ingber saw ?Needle Tower? the monumental sculpture by Kenneth Snelson, it was almost 30 years ago.
Don: ... it?s like, kind of like an old friend...
Narration: Don was just 20 years old - a molecular biophysics and biochemistry major at Yale - he was already quite accomplished in his studies - and he was dating a girl who was studying to be a sculptor. She took him to the gardens at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC to see ?Needle Tower.? She just knew Don would love it. Like girlfriends often are, she was right - he was completely transfixed.
Don: it?s so elegant ? it is weightless - it?s just incredible?
Narration: Needle Tower - like a lot of Kenneth Snleson?s work - is made of enormous aluminum struts suspended with high-tension cable. They seem to defy gravity. Near the bottom the struts are huge - and as they move up and up, they g...
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