Back in the 1990s, I toured MIT’s Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., one of the key players in the Human Genome Project. The massive project was the life sciences equivalent of putting people on the moon. In a large room, rows and rows of big beige machines, automated gene sequencers, hummed along, churning their way through DNA.
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