Why reporters other than Novak did not make more of the information is a mystery.

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The finding helped solve a long-standing mystery of how soil bacteria could make such antibiotics and other druglike chemicals, called polyketides.

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As for Freud, it was apparently his love of an intellectual mystery that he might be the one to solve that helped make him a doubter.

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