REVERSE 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

REVERSE 2

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Rice University chemist K.C. Nicolaou and his lab reversed their approach to making halichondrin B for the shortest route to the parent compound of eribulin, used to treat breast cancer and liposarcoma.

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