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Every molecule in your body was once a mystery.

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Somebody had to go hunting!

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Back in the sixteen hundreds, Jan Baptist van Helmont weighed a willow tree to ask where its matter came from.

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Science was off and running.

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Then came urea in a flask, yeast bubbling away, and enzymes doing their work outside any living cell.

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Then the cycles that burn our fuel.

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The order of a protein.

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The shape of one.

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The switches that let our cells talk to each other.

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And medicines that grew straight out of all that knowledge.

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This is The Molecule Hunters.

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A hundred and thirty-three profiles of a hundred and ninety scientists, written with more than five hundred students at the University of Virginia.

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Free to read.

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Free to hear.

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Come meet them at deppmann lab dot com slash book!