One of the most powerful cancer drugs on the market — Taxol or, generically, paclitaxel — comes from the Pacific yew tree. It was discovered in the 1960s during a massive government program to find medications in plant extracts. It worked remarkably well in its first human trials, but environmentalists realized that harvesting more Taxol [...]
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The Pacific Yew Tree – Amazing Chemicals Invented by Nature, Rebuilt in Lab
31 January 2009 · No Comments
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