On Star Trek there was DeForest Kelley (Dr McCoy), who was a lovely guy.

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It looks like a cross between a flip top phone and the medical scanner used by Dr McCoy in the TV series Star Trek.

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Mr. DeFOREST KELLEY (Actor): (As Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) Well, so help me, I'm actually pleased to see you.

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On Star Trek, Dr. "Bones" McCoy could diagnose cancer just by waving a saltshaker--sorry, a "medical tricorder"--over a patient's body.

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Dr Venter's was the real McCoy: when he put the viral DNA into host cells they started to spit out new viruses just as self-destructively as cells infected with the natural Phi-X174.

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