The DOE absolutely has the skills to evaluate this. The US National labs have arguably the most sophisticated biotech research facilities in the world. I don’t

The DOE absolutely has the skills to evaluate this. The US National labs have arguably the most sophisticated biotech research facilities in the world. I don’t think it’s as widely known as universities, but a large fraction of the worlds basic life science research is actually performed at the National labs. For example, the human genome project was mostly done by them.