His group first looked to nature for inspiration, using studies of the biochemistry of organisms that survive without water: 500-year-old Chinese lotus seeds, the hardy resurrection plant of the Sonoran desert and the microscopic tardigrade creature.

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Although I still can't look at a fruit fly without cringing just a little, I went on to take his biochemistry class and excelled.

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Behan, a native of Liverpool, England with a doctorate in biochemistry, believed he could come up with drug candidates without knowing the ligand part of the equation.

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