Normally, the microscopic wavefunctions of the electrons in a material combine in a way that blurs out their waviness on a macroscopic scale.

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Quake's technology "could allow biologists to do all sorts of things that we want to do that either aren't possible or are too time-consuming and expensive to do on a macroscopic scale, " says W. French Anderson , a gene therapy pioneer at the University of Southern California.

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