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Is That Botulinum Toxin?
We have to examine any molecule on a case-by-case basis and go, okay, these are the properties of this compound. It doesn't matter if it has never existed in nature and is purely synthetic. Nature also has biosynthetic pathways where it takes tiny molecules and builds them. When we make a synthetic molecule, there's some vitamin or whatever it is, and we're synthesizing it. We're making that molecule. That's not a different substance.