Jef Akst | Apr 1, 2010 | 3 min read
By Jef Akst Lin He: Mesmerized by micro © Eric Millette Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley. Age: 36 Lin He didn’t learn much biology in high school, as secondary education in her native China focuses more on math, physics, and chemistry. That “limited exposure” made biology “very mysterious,” recalls He, who decided to make it her major when she g