Ancient Chinese folk remedy may hold key to non-toxic cancer treatment
... Singh have exploited the chemical properties of a wormwood derivative to target breast cancer cells, with surprisingly effective results. A study in the latest issue of the journal Life Sciences describes how the derivative killed virtually all human breast cancer cells exposed to it within 16 hours. Not o...Yeast, wormwood & bacterial genes combine in microbial factory to make antimalarial drug
...or mutated to avoid the toxins -- so he stuck in a wormwood gene for an enzyme that converts them to amorphadi...e because of the costs of chemical extraction from wormwood (Artemisia annua, a relative of the herb used to make absinthe) or total laboratory synthesis. The e...Institute for OneWorld Health CEO advocates focus first on developing world markets
...ancient Chinese herbal medicine extracted from the wormwood plant. Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been shown to be effective in treating malaria, but a treatment costs about $2.50 per cure. For people who live on $1 per day, the choice is between buying either food or medicine. Old anti-mala...