<P> In 1994 Ayyadurai founded a company called Millennium Cybernetics, which produces email management software originally called Xiva and now called EchoMail . The software analyzes incoming email messages to organizations before either replying automatically or forwarding it to the most relevant department . By 2001, customers included Kmart, American Express, and Calvin Klein, as well as more than 30 U.S. senators to help handle constituent email . EchoMail competed with more established customer relationship management software that had an email component . On their website EchoMail describes itself as The Inventor of Email TM . </P> <P> In 2015, Ayyadurai published a paper that applied systems biology, which uses mathematical modeling, to predict the chemical composition of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and whether or not they were substantially equivalent to unmodified soybeans . The paper claimed that GM soybeans have lower levels of the antioxidant glutathione and higher levels of cancer - causing formaldehyde, making the modified soybean substantially different, contrary to previous safety assessments . The publication led to sensational headlines from opponents of GM foods . Shortly after publication, he embarked on a speaking tour of the US . At the National Press Club, he said that genetic modification had "fundamentally modified the metabolic system of the soy" disrupting the "beautiful way of detoxifying (formaldehyde)" present in non-GM soy . </P> <P> The European Food Safety Agency evaluated the paper and determined that "the author's conclusions are not supported" due to the lack of information on the input into the model, the fact that the model was not validated and because no measurements of soybeans were made to establish whether GM soy actually contained elevated levels of formaldehyde . Plant scientist Kevin Folta noted that there was "no evidence ever published...that shows a difference in formaldehyde between GM and non-GM varieties". Ayyadurai later cited the study as evidence of a lack of safety standards for GM foods and bet Monsanto a $10 m building if they could prove that they were safe . Monsanto did not take up the challenge but stated that GM food did indeed undergo safety assessments that "are more rigorous and thorough than assessments of any other food crop in history". In 2016, Ayyadurai promised to donate $10 m to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign if she could disprove his research . </P> <P> On March 17, 2017, Ayyadurai filed as a Republican candidate in the 2018 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, running against incumbent Elizabeth Warren . On November 11, 2017, he announced he would run as an independent . </P>

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