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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 681–684 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/nchembio1107-681

Making the step from chemistry to biology and back

David S Goodsell

When I was in high school, I was lucky to have a biology teacher who amazed us with interesting laboratory experiments. I remember one of these experiments particularly vividly: he set up a blender in front of the classroom and proceeded to puree a piece of liver.