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A Deadly Fish Poison Might Be the Future of Pain Relief

Dr. Xiangbing Qi's team developed a scalable chemical route to make the potent nerve toxin tetrodotoxin and a close relative from a common starting material, easing supply for medical research.

Xiangbing Qi · National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

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