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Well one of the things
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that she's done is work with something called PROP,
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and PROP is the abbreviation for this compound
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that you see on the bottom, Propylthiouracil.
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It got the--which is a variation of something
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that got discovered in 1931 by a chemist named Fox.
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He was working with that particular compound
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that you see in the top bullet point there, and it exploded in his lab.
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What happened is he found
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that the associate got some of this in his mouth,
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tasted it as quite bitter, but he didn't taste it at all,
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and he got interested in why would this be this case?