Examines films of biomolecules that can provide solid surfaces for catalyzing enzyme reactions, serve in biosensors and as biorecognition elements, mediate nanoparticle formation, and provide a basic for fundamental studies and applications in biomedical devices.

A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child s tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill s research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill s angry outburst hinder the company s faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John s hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.

A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child s tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill s research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill s angry outburst hinder the company s faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John s hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.

A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child s tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill s research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill s angry outburst hinder the company s faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John s hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.