Dear Pin Xiu, It is September 2008, and you’ve just won your first Paralympic gold medal (in the S3 50m backstroke) and it was spectacular. For the first time, Singapore’s national anthem was ...

† Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Otto-Hahn-Str. 15, 44227 Dortmund, Germany ‡ ‡ Department of Physical Biochemistry, § Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of ...