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A STORY LIVES FOREVER REGISTER SIGN IN Web of Stories offers you the chance to listen to some of the greatest people of our time telling their life stories. Editor's pick The most popular stories Growing muscle and nerve cells Gerald Fischbach - Scientist Each stage of my career I moved up the science ladder, from when I began at Cornell, working on the neuromuscular junction, trying to find evidence that acetylcholine had a presynaptic action. And I did, but its primary action was on the postsynaptic membrane. My tour after that at the NIH, where my science broadened. Not only did I work on the rodent neuromuscular junction, on the cat tenuissimus muscle. It would scare the hell out of Ruth because I told her my experimental subjects were stray cats and she couldn't tolerate that. At the NIH I stuck with mice and rodents but began a new area which became the focus of my career: growing muscle and nerve cells in tissue culture. No one had been doing that. But I had this idea that if