👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird beast, affectionately nicknamed "Triplet Luciferase, but honestly let's just stick with, you guessed it…
MktCap luciferase.
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Now, before your eyeballs glaze over from the sheer syllable count of that monstrosity, let's unpack what we mean. Essentially, we’re talking about a genetically engineered form of luciferase – a fancy-sounding, essentially “cold lightin’” molecule, a sort of biological glowstick. Historically, luciferases came naturally from fireflies, and other nasty but fascinating things like deep-sea jellyfish. MktCap luciferase is... let's just say it was birthed in the rather aggressively competitive (cue dramatic announcer music here – you guessed it! 3M, McKinsey, and Tata…the MktCap Luciferase Project!) . It was designed for a very specific, and frankly, somewhat disturbing, purpose: to quantify the level of strategic disconnect within large corporate mergers. Basically, researchers figured out that if they could attach this luciferase to the financial reports and KPIs of these mega-firms, it would literally glow brighter whenever there were discrepancies between what companies said they were doing and what their actual performance was showing. Think of it as a fleshy, perpetually anxious scoreboard for the business underworld! It's like a corporate Geiger counter that’s telling you where the biggest lies are being told – and then, of course, blinking with a horrifying, unnatural teal light. The whole
