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THE INVENTION

IN 2016, INVENTOR and scientist Erik Gentalen reached out to a former colleague with exciting news, and a proposition.

“I started a company, and we could use some help,” Gentalen said. The former colleague, Lena Wu, had worked with him around 15 years earlier as the director of business development at Caliper Technologies, a Mountain View, California-based bioresearch firm. Gentalen’s new company, Intabio, would launch his latest invention, an instrument to analyze and ensure the

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