Reminds me a lot of Andrew Schally's "growth hormone releasing hormone" that turned out to be a contaminating peptide derived from pig blood.
Long winded and hard to follow the conclusion. Chica was accused of fraud but didn’t commit fraud?
you read an article on the domain asimov.press about a very narrow, deep slice of biology, and expect it not to be long-winded? yeah, it’d be nice if there were a nice bow to wrap around the whole thing, but said bow is not (yet) extant. how much shorter would you pike the story to be? it took me literally 5 minutes to read, and i easily could have read something else titillating were i bored at any point…