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Old Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:14 PM
Neil Cuadra Neil Cuadra is offline
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All the more surprising because it was an accidental discovery!

From the article:
The original goal of this work was to sort out the naming of different bacterial genes, but the result was identifying a completely new metabolic pathway that can be exploited to improve healthcare," says Phillips. "It's a reminder that, to paraphrase Louis Pasteur, chance favors the prepared mind.
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