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Taylor was a steel-plant manager and a mechanical engineer who thought that traditional methods of factory work, where each worker relied on personal skill and custom, were inefficient.

In the living room, Brettler added electric shades to help cool the interiors, and in the kitchen, LED lighting above and below the cabinets to brighten the home’s inefficient fluorescent lighting.

While retrons have been used before in mammalian cells, previous attempts were highly inefficient, correcting only about 1.5% of targeted cells.

At times, Atlas struggled with clicking the correct button; it was like watching my toddler feed himself—inefficient but ultimately successful.

One possibility would be to grow each organoid in a separate dish, but doing so is often inefficient.