Dr. Liau is my role model. In another life, I'll study as hard as possible to see if she would take me as her Ph.D. student. If you attack me, I can simply brush it off. But you smeared someone I hold in huge esteem. I will hold grudge until you disappear from this board.
Now education time.
You most likely haven't read the Nature preprint in which a company Illumina was mentioned which has expertise in RNA sequencing. Would Merck partner with Illumina? You can find the answer yourself.