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Re:Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing by fluxquanta on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:53PM (#11383383)
When I was a research assistant in college I was encouraged for one of my presentations to emphasize safe hydrogen storage as a vehicle fuel source, when really the research was all about how minuscule amounts of hydrogen change the electrical/optical properties of thin metallic films (and desorption was on the order of days). Selling it as a building block for safer hydrogen storage was necessary to get people engaged.
Re:Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing by refurb on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:11PM (#11383539)
Yup! I published a paper on organoselenium chemistry and was asked to add commentary about potential "anti-cancer" properties.

Sure my work could be extended in that direction, but I had done zero work to pursue it.