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Synthetic chemistry: Steroids that only nature could make on a large scale, until now - Scientists have achieved a feat in synthetic chemistry by inventing a scalable method to make complex natural compounds known as "polyhydroxylated steroids." These compounds, used in heart-failure medications and other drugs, have been notoriously problematic to synthesize in the laboratory.(10.1126/science.1230631)

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