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Luckily, Benner’s team made a breakthrough in 2013, discovering that a catalyst called molybdate — a form of molybdenum that includes oxygen — can reconfigure the other sugar’s atoms to convert it into ribose.
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Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2014
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Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2014
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molybdate
noun
mo·lyb·date
mə-ˈlib-ˌdāt 
: a salt of molybdenum containing the group MoO4 or Mo2O7
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