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At the nanoscale old materials acquire new properties that International Institute for Nanotechnology Director Chad Mirkin thinks will change the way medicine is practiced.
Exploiting the unique properties of living systems makes synthetic biologists better engineers.
Designing genomes from scratch will be the next revolution in biology.
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