but steven gire, who is the genome guy there, steven gire's an interesting fellow. he originally -- he's, apparently, a very talented chef, and he was offered a chance to compete on the bravo show "top chef," and he turned it down and instead went to africa to do rrming on monkeypox -- research on monkeypox virus which is a cousin of smallpox. but he, i think the reason why he's a good chef is also the reason why he's a good molecular biologist. these people are, they tend to be extremely precise with their hands, and they tend to have a sense of calmness and control when they're dealing with small quantities of liquid and complex recipes which is what molecular biology is essentially all about. so gire and his colleagues took these, initially they took 14 samples of human blood that were infected with ebola virus from patients, they had a technique whereby they could take this -- actually, it was blood plasma. it was blood plasma that had a lot of destroyed red blood cells in the it. because if you take a blood sample from an ebola patient, it's going to look diffe