“It started as a joke, actually,” Elena Korngold told me. But late last month, the 40-something radiologist from Portland, Oregon, and her family decided that their unsanctioned scheme couldn’t hurt.

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“Failure is not an option.” This was the stark, five-word directive that landed in Paul J. Hergenrother’s cell phone in early May. Over the months that followed, researchers and staff worked at ...