undreamt-of

In the years following WTO membership, the internet - like elsewhere in the world - gave Chinese people an opportunity for discussion and dissent previously undreamt of.

And as this book shows, the value of such data increases exponentially with time, illuminating issues undreamt of when the studies began.

And they might one day enable people to create products now undreamt of as humans gain, in the words of Drew Endy, a bioengineer at Stanford University in California, “mastery of living matter”.

“These are not misprints,” he said, “but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.”

The story of SCN9A reveals how the pursuit of basic understanding lays a crucial foundation for clinical advances once undreamt of.