After her child is finally diagnosed with Hermansky Pudlock Syndome, Donna Appell set off on a mission to make sure other parents have the information she didn’t, and feeling unmoored after she’s diagnosed with LFS, Jenn Perry attends a patient conference that changes her life.

On her first day as a music therapist, Jude Treder-Wolff realizes the job isn’t what she expected, and after witnessing tragedy as a child, Mani-Jade Garcia stops speaking

Fresh out of college, Stephanie Keep is hired to be the assistant to legendary evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, and at age fourteen, Fabrizzio Subia begins assisting a local dentist in treating undocumented patients.

Lawrence Green wakes up in a hospital room to find that he’s sustained devastating injuries in a motorcycle accident, and after tragedy strikes her family, Camille Adams Jones must find a way to confront her own trauma.

In his early twenties, Jonathan Feakins goes above and beyond for his job as a West Nile virus mosquito technician, and while working as a coral reef biologist in Panama in 1989, Nancy Knowlton and her young daughter are taken into the custody of the Panamanian military when the U.S. invades.

When Sudeep Agarwala becomes a synthetic biologist, he rediscovers a tradition from his childhood, and Jasmina Aganovic’s passion for science leads her to an unexpected place.