About This Video

Every scientist has had a “once in a blue moon” discovery—an accident or epiphany that goes favorably for them. Geneticist Mary-Claire King has had four. From her early days discovering the link between chimpanzees and humans, her work reuniting kidnapped children to their grandparents through the use of mitochondrial DNA, and all the way to her discovery of BRCA1, the “breast cancer gene,” King’s work has not only been groundbreaking, but has changed the lives of countless people.
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Recorded June 2011; Posted January 2012