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TIL that Dexter Holland, the front man of Offspring, is a PhD student helping study how… microRNA sequences can help fight against HIV. And while he was a young grad student at USC, he came up with the phrase “gotta keep ‘em separated” while waiting for two petri dishes to cool off.

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