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Thinking Like an Engineer

  By Benjamin Lester
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When Intel comes out with a new microprocessor, its competitors' inquisitive engineers soon have that chip under a microscope, figuring out how the device works by tracing the patterns of transistors on its surface.

Dmitri Chklovskii, a group leader at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus, is applying much the same technique to fruit flies.

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