Using a Platform to Create Useful Molecule Tools Can Accelerate Biote Research

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A platform for creating useful molecular tools can really accelerate biote research. There's no way to have a big impact like accelerating everybody else's work and empowering others. How many genetical distinct tages do you estimate you've produced in your lab since you started doing this work? Probably somewhere between ten to the thirteenth, a even ten to the fifteenth at most lats, i believe.

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