Cardy Raper
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Cardy Raper

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Cardy Raper was born midst a pack of five older brothers in 1925. At the age of eight, she yearned to be a scientist and announced to her family, "When we grow up, my brother Jonny and I want to be scientists." Her mother replied, "That's nice Dear; Jonny can be a doctor and you can be a nurse." "But Mom", said Cardy, "A nurse is not a scientist!" After little encouragement to become a scientist all through college, Cardy met and fell in love with her mentor at the University of Chicago, Red Raper, who taught her a woman can do anything, including research on the sex life of fungi. She and Red married, had children, and worked together on a mushroom-bearing fungus with over 20,000 sexes. While at Harvard, they located the genes responsible for such promiscuity; then Red died at the dawn of the molecular genetic age. Cardy, at 52, completed her doctorate, found a job with a lab of her own--first Wellesley College, then University of Vermont--and mastered techniques to discover the astonishing molecules those mushroom sex genes encode. They resemble molecules used for environmental sensing throughout the animal kingdom, from worms, bugs, and rats to human beings.
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