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Erwin Chargaff

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What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, a molecular Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
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The Genetic Revolution—Great Promise With Growing Concern, Awake! magazine, July 22, 1989.

 
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