Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Joan Steitz of Yale University, left, and Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California-San Francisco talk at a news conference Friday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn at Albany Medical Center after being named the first female recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.