Plant biotechnology: Tobacco plants make malaria drug
Plant biotechnology: Tobacco plants make malaria drug
Nature 534, 7609 (2016). doi:10.1038/534592b
Inexpensive fast-growing plants have been transformed into factories that churn out an important antimalarial drug.Artemisinin is the only proven malaria treatment, with hundreds of millions of doses taken every year. The sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua) produces a precursor of the compound,
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