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Science Journey - Seeing is Believing: Powerful Microscopes Help Us Discover Medicines in Nature
Join Caltech postdoctoral scholar David Delgadillo for a presentation about curiosity and discovery. Like many, David sometimes took antibiotics when he was sick as a child. Growing up in an agricultural family, he also gave these medicines to farm animals. This sparked an insatiable desire to understand how seemingly invisible chemicals can dramatically cure illness. In his talk, David will explore how humans throughout history have harnessed the medicinal properties of plants. He will also introduce some of the devices scientists use to figure out the structure of the chemicals responsible for medicinal effects. Delving into his own research, David will share his discovery of a novel way to reveal new compounds in nature using a technique called electron diffraction—a method that can help us see the seemingly invisible.
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