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Laura Pirro is a PhD student in chemical engineering at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University, Belgium.
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If you’ve ever written a research proposal, the chances are that you will have planned the work as a list of sequential activities, often visualized in a Gantt chart.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01184-9
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