So, those most likely to get screwed are (in approximate descending order of degree of screwed-ness):
a) the biochemists b) the nanotech biologists c) the scanning and environmental biologists (working on finding new bugs)
I think in most cases that the effects are going to be small. I'll surmise that it's really only when you're working at nano-scale (technical definition of 10^-9) concentrations of compounds or targets that you'll likely see the effect.
Of course, balance out the pharmaceutical industry's drive to doing tests in smaller and smaller volumes, with less and less reagents and reaction constituents... the back-end pipeline just got *that* much longer.
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:00 pm (UTC)a) the biochemists
b) the nanotech biologists
c) the scanning and environmental biologists (working on finding new bugs)
I think in most cases that the effects are going to be small. I'll surmise that it's really only when you're working at nano-scale (technical definition of 10^-9) concentrations of compounds or targets that you'll likely see the effect.
Of course, balance out the pharmaceutical industry's drive to doing tests in smaller and smaller volumes, with less and less reagents and reaction constituents... the back-end pipeline just got *that* much longer.