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Andre Fenton: The twisting road from basic brain research to helping malaria patients

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André Fenton always wanted to do research at the most fundamental level -- to uncover basic truths about memory and how it works, never mind how useful. But a friend's accident unexpectedly leads to him inventing a spectacularly useful, and lifesaving, device.

This story originally aired on March 3, 2013.

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