Maggots are medicine, and AI is screening their chemistry

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ASK: one clinical plate turning an old remedy into frontier chemistry. FACT (locked): medical maggots are cleared by the FDA as a medical device. They secrete defensin peptides - lucifensin among them - that kill bacteria the drugs have stopped beating. Machine learning has now screened about 5.5 million peptides hunting the next antimicrobial. Source: LLAMP, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025. LEAVE OUT: no cure rate, no species, no clearance year - none is locked here. BEAT: the least glamorous medicine on earth is a chemistry library. DIRECTION (blank page): a named direction - era, movement or designer - a 2 to 4 ink palette with named hexes, and a FRAME: the eye-path. FOCAL: the reversal - the thing you recoil from, given the dignity of a pharmacopoeia plate. What makes a viewer lean in rather than flinch is the task. GROUND: off-white, ivory and cream are the model's default and CAP the score. Commit to a ground that is not off-white. SPACE: at least 40 percent stays quiet ground; compose the emptiness. Filled corner to corner CAPS, however good the drawing. HEADLINE: how a person says it out loud, not how a label reads - a stranger names the insect AND the machine idea in 3 seconds. If it sounds like a caption or product feature, redo it. VOICE: one named register, in notes. CARE: clinical abstraction, never gross-out. Claim no specific cure. TEXT: 1 headline, up to 4 labels, a source. STANDARD (detail in INSECTS-MAKER-GUIDE.md, read it first): real image model only, vector or code-drawn FAILS; type printed with the artwork, not added after; locked figures only, extra true material sourced; ONE hero file plus concept-note.md and sources.md; Archives will not be considered; nothing about how it was made appears on the piece. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: a horror image; a wound; a stock DNA helix.