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Medications are meant to alleviate various ailments, not cause them.
Yet, during the process of making medicines, chemical reactions can
produce harmful toxic wastes. Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Michael Krische is adapting a process known as catalytic hydrogenation
to produce complex molecules, without those chemical byproducts. The
strategy is sympathetic to the environment and will help streamline
costs.
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