Thale cress

So, yeah, he had just invented the microarray, which is a data technology now.

But I remember having done a lot of northern blots as a student at UCLA, seeing that they had studied the Cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, to study the tip of the root and the tip of the shoot, comparing these two parts of the anatomy of this plant.

I think it was like 100 or 200 genes at once.

That's magic.