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Scientist as trucker
Last Wednesday, I drove to Manhattan to pick up an Illumina GAIIx gene sequencing machine (Fig. 1). Arguably, I have never written a sentence less probable. I hardly sequence DNA by the kilo-base, let alone by the giga-base, and driving in Manhattan leaves me terrified. The story began only the week before when Nick Kaplinsky […]