Chemically balanced

One might expect the process of making a medical discovery to look something like alchemy: constantly combining complex formulas, bubbling liquids changing color, an explosion here or there.

But Kevin Sill's eureka moment happened while reading a journal article published more than 70 years ago.

Sill, chief science officer for Intezyne, a Tampa-based biomedical research firm, found himself in the middle of a serious research bender. Twenty pages deep in Google search results, he had spent the past year reviewing piles of scientific journals.