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A Conversation with Eric Schadt, Part I

Sep 16, 2011

Eric Schadt of PacBio and Mount Sinai's Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology discusses being labeled a "genomics rebel" the Mount Sinai-PacBio collaboration and more.




Produced by Matthew Dublin

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