love the article. hydrophobic glue and so on. interesting stuff. i upvoted it. but i'm not convinced that inspiration from nature to medicine is a new thing.

love the article. hydrophobic glue and so on. interesting stuff. i upvoted it. but i'm not convinced that inspiration from nature to medicine is a new thing. haven't researchers been looking at the techniques plants and fungi use to combat bacteria for a long time, for example? or didn't Pasteur get inspired by nature to create vaccines with the cowpox vs smallpox phenomenon? or weren't more recent attempts to derive an anti-coagulant from the substances used by blood sucking leeches also inspired by nature?