Scientists turn harmful global warming gas into cure for fatal disease with 3D printed reactor

Chemists at the University of Graz in Austria have invented a way of converting fluoroform, a harmful waste gas produced from the chemical production of Teflon, into eflornithine, a drug used to treat sleeping sickness, using a 3D printed stainless steel continuous flow reactor. Sleeping sickness, AKA African trypanosomiasis, has a mortality rate close to 100% […]

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