In this episode of Exploration Science, Professor Jennifer Heemstra discusses the biomolecular diversity of peptide nucleic acids, the challenges of our current scientific reward structure, and the opportunity to grow through failure.

Bilingual Peptide Nucleic Acids: Encoding the Languages of Nucleic Acids and Proteins in a Single Self-Assembling Biopolymer: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b09146

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