High-Speed Drug Discovery
How could we find a compound to prevent the protein misfolding that causes Alzheimer's and other brain diseases? One lab has developed a way to test new potential cures at unprecedented speed — more than 100,000 in just a few weeks.
Interviewees from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: Susan Lindquist, Director, and Tiago Outeiro and Smitha Jagadish, researchers
2004
About These Documentaries
Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.
For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.
Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.
A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.