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  A Brief Story of My Life My childhood unfolded in the town of Võru. Languages were not my strong suit. Russian, Estonian, and English all felt less like tools of communication and more like obstacles to understanding the world. Chemistry and physics, on the other hand, made much more sense. From an early age, I dreamed of leaving the USSR. And to leave — you had to study. So I ended up at Leningrad University. There, chemistry quietly led me to biology, and biology — to DNA. Working with molecules promised, if not freedom, then at least trips abroad. Toward the end of the last millennium, PCR arrived on the scene. This technology amplified not only DNA molecules, but also my departure from the Soviet Union. For ten years straight, I ran a dozen PCR reactions a day — reliably, without holidays. Then came computers and the internet. The next 25 years I spent studying PCR products digitally. At some point, as the saying goes, I had enough of it. I retired. The mission was accomplish...