Countries like the US or Israel, by contrast do, and can gear up their military effort greatly in time of war as a result.

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Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.

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They pay for the gear a cousin of mine who will be doing his 6th tour in a war that started on incompetence and politics.

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