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Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton

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Don't Fear, I'm Going to Be Your Secretary

The project began with a budget that was essentially zero before it got started. It had to ramp up faster than the rest of n i h or it couldn't possibly do its job inventing all these technologies and also figuring out how to actually do sequencing at scale. Something like a thousand base pairs a second was what we had to get to. And when we started out, we were lucky to do a thousand base pair in a day. We learned just how enthusiastic the president was about genomics when he visited us on a s Saturday,. The experience of hearing his questions, showing him how to dissect a human chromozome, and recognizing that we had dream team to support n i h and

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