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by icegreentea 4355 days ago
I should point out that the star of the article (open source taq polymerase) is the bread and butter of genetics research. It is what makes PCR - pretty much the standard way of doing DNA amplification (which any genetics research requires) work.

As it stands now, taq isn't ridiculously expensive, but surely open sourcing will reduce the barrier.