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Seattle biotech startup Rhizome Research has emerged from stealth with technology for creating small-molecule drug candidates ...

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have designed a rhodium catalyst whose microenvironment is tuned by both sulfur and phosphine ligands, based on an industrial single-site ...