TED Talks
Sharon Terry: Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
TV-PG
2017 • E123 Jun 15, 2017 15mMeet Sharon Terry, a former college chaplain and stay-at-home mom who took the medical research world by storm when her two young children were diagnosed with a rare disease known as pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE). In this knockout talk, Terry explains how she and her husband became citizen scientists, working midnight shifts at the lab to find the gene behind PXE and establishing mandates that require researchers to share biological samples and work together.
