The word dismantle has appeared 375 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 13 in The New York Times Magazine article “Nature’s ‘Swiss Army Knife’: What Can We Learn From Venom?” by Kim Tingley:
The problem, as far as he could tell, was that the people who study tarantula venom are biologists, and they generally lack the experience and technology to sequence it efficiently. On the flip side, his pharma colleagues had the tools and know-how to dismantle and reassemble infinitesimal droplets, but they tended to think of venom (if they thought about it at all) as a blunt instrument of pain and death, not a treasure trove of compelling molecular designs. And, of course, they had no idea where to get it.
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