Brendan Gallagher, PhD

"But we also know that seeing what brains look like before and after neurodegenerative disease hasn’t actually helped us cure them so far – many drugs that specifically remove protein buildup (plaques) in the brain have failed to make it out of the clinic."

"...there is a high potential impact for any technology developed that makes studying proteins as easy as nucleic acids, with many academic and industry scientists vying for the “holy grail” of protein detection."

" Just like your left glove doesn’t fit properly on your right hand, a left-handed molecule won’t fit into an enzyme that normally catalyzes its mirror image. And chiral molecules aren’t just a novelty to fill space in a chemistry textbook. No, they’re everywhere: in medicine, food, and in the very molecules that give us life."

"For true archival storage of information, there is a push to ditch electricity altogether in favor of one of the oldest known information storage mechanisms: DNA."