Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA? A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make DNA data storage feasible.

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For Chris Nikoi SM ’91, a background in shipping has delivered the chance to feed millions: He’s now the World Food Programme’s regional director for western Africa. Overseeing WFP operations in 19 countries is, he says, “a constant puzzle.”

Drug manufacturing often involves fragile global supply chains. Now Snapdragon Chemistry, co-founded by Professor Tim Jamison, is helping pharmaceutical companies manufacture drugs locally to shorten the time it takes to get them to patients.

Manuel Morales joined the Navy after high school and began taking college classes while deployed at sea. He’s now a PhD student in HST, developing imaging applications to detect cardiac dysfunction in young patients.

“We are in a science and technology race for the future,” President L. Rafael Reif told Marketplace, regarding a bill to boost R&D spending. “It is with science and technology that we address things like Covid and the biggest challenges the world has.”