You can read the full history in this story by my college band friend Peter Landers, but the short version it that is was discovered by a Kyoto University pharmacologist in the mid-1990s who was searching for better transplant drugs.
Flying back from a CFO conference last month, I read a Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker magazine about Nathan Myhrvold and a band of merry inventors.
"Was a one-man band for two years, updating breaking news, current events, political, entertainment and sports content, " read Keys' description of that job on Facebook.