Taking a huge risk as additional trials ensued, Novartis boosted production a hundredfold, going from making merely kilograms in a complicated 12-step process to producing tonnes at its plant in Ringaskiddy, Ireland.

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At a frenetic factory outside the village of Ringaskiddy, Ireland, workers have spent the past year laboring in 12-hour shifts around the clock, seven days a week, turning out 10 tonnes of a plain-looking white powder with extraordinary qualities.

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