Developing new drugs is not for the faint-hearted. “It’s a pretty perilous journey,” says Paul Nioi, vice-president of discovery and translational research at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. “It’s expensive ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...