As a scientist, S. “Murali” Muralidharan — a University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute researcher and native of southern India — knows that experimentation is the key to discovery.

What is good for the lab, reckoned the Northwest Baltimore resident back in his graduate-school days, is good for the kitchen.

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