Sobel writes, "With this disaster, even more than with a hurricane, we will need to rely on each other, on a much larger scale & for a much longer time than any of us are accustomed to. We need young & healthy people to take all possible measures not to get the virus — even at possible cost to themselves, & even though their own risk of suffering serious harm from the virus is very low — in order to slow the spread for the benefit of those most at risk. And as economic activity declines with widespread social isolation, we need those whose livelihoods are not at risk to give some consideration to those whose are, & support them."

Prof. Oleg Gang is part of a collaborative team of researchers from Columbia Engineering and Brookhaven National Lab that has designed and synthesized molecule chains to efficiently protect 3-D DNA nanostructures from structural degradation under a variety of biomedically relevant conditions.