Learning to love the data May 6, 2026 Above: Matt Sigman Chemist Matt Sigman elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences In 1994, a young graduate student named Matt Sigman found himself at a biotech firm in Boulder, Colorado, watching scientists run millions of experiments in search of a single result. The company was pioneering a process that used vast libraries of DNA and RNA to find molecules that would bind to specific targets. It was an elegant, almost Darwinian approach to...