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Verticillin A has
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have synthesised for the first time a complex fungal compound known as verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago and long viewed as a potential anti-cancer agent.
Verticillin A has a highly intricate structure that has made it far more difficult to synthesise than related compounds, despite differing from them by only a few
