Listen. A lot of this shit gets discovered for crazy reasons. For two years these two postdocs were throwing away one fraction of their size exclusion chromatography step. I got into a really heated six hour argument where i insisted that the postdocs did not understand that size exclusion chromatography, big shit comes out first (they thought that big shit comes out last). The next day the postdoc apologized, since I was correct.

Oddly, a month or so later, they stopped to take a look at the fraction they were throwing out and it turned out that their molecule was self-assembling into cages. This is important for how the molecule is supposed to work. They got some very important papers out of it. I'm not even thanked.

ML is not accelerate this sort of stuff.