Fancy that, a fabulous map

This is beautiful, I'd hang it on my wall. It's a genetic map of the first synthetic organism, and it and many others will be on display in the Serpentine Gallery in London this weekend.

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And gosh, what do you know, I am going to be in London this weekend! I may have to sneak out of The Amazing Meeting a bit, which is going to be hard to do since it's so jam-packed with cool people and cool stuff, but some of them might want to join me in a little extracurricular travel as well.

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