Drug discovery is a high-stakes business. The cost of developing a new prescription medicine that gains marketing approval from regulators is about $3.5 billion 鈥 and 7 out of 8 new drug candidates...
What is a million times thinner than a human hair, yet 200 times stronger than steel? What is lighter than paper, yet stretches up to 20% of its length?
In a cavernous space in Professor Sabrina Leslie鈥檚 lab, recent PhD graduate Dr. Daniel Berard is analyzing live videos of fluctuating single oligonucleotides鈥攕hort molecules of DNA鈥攁s they are...