Earlier this week, Janet Rowley was among 16 Americans who accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her scientific work on recurring chromosomal abnormalities proved cancer is a genetic disease, and paved the way to new treatments and preventions. But she might not consider her greatest achievement, after having raised four children. The 84-year-old runs a lab that studies connections between genetic changes and cancer.

Music Button: Rez Abbassi, “Realities of Chromaticism”, from the CD Things To Come, (Sunnyside Communications)