David Liu and Stuart Schreiber on the science that motivates, fascinates, and tells us who we are

What motivates a creative scientific mind? How does an accomplished scientist pinpoint new subjects to explore? How is the field of chemical biology evolving? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, we probe those questions with scientists and serial entrepreneurs David Liu and Stuart Schreiber, both pioneers in developing tools that use chemistry to explore biology.

A transcript of this episode and links to past C&EN coverage of David Liu and Stuart Schreiber are available at bit.ly/3D4L4HB.

Read Stuart Schreiber's Harvard Magazine article about discovering his family's secrets at https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/07/dna-testing-schreiber

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