Award-winning journalist Terry McDermott spent nearly two years observing Gary Lynch,an obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers at work and now gives us a fascinating and dramatic account of daily life in his lab—the highs and lows, the drudgery and eureka moments, the agonizing failures. He provides detailed, lucid explanations of the cutting-edge science that enabled Lynch to reveal the inner workings of the molecular machine that manufactures memory.