Work on nerve growth factor over the 30 years following the seminal papers announcing its discovery in the early to mid-1950s stimulated a series of observations documenting what the protein did ...

After the war, she moved to the US, where she discovered nerve growth factor, which guides the development of the nervous system. She later became an Italian senator for life. Chien-Shiung Wu ...

when Rita Levi-Montalcini discovered a soluble substance called nerve growth factor (NGF) and Stanley Cohen discovered something quite similar, epidermal growth factor (EGF). The field of growth ...