To be fair to the former home secretary and Labour member for Norwich South, he was key to securing the A11 development - in a cross-party allegiance with RichardSpring, the former Conservative MP for West Suffolk.
The machines "are changing everything, and it's only going to be limited by our imagination what we can do with them, " says W. Richard McCombie, a researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is on the hunt for cancer genes.