For example, pharmaceutical chemist, Youyou Tu, discovered artemisinin, an antimalarial extract from the plant Artemisia after being inspired by an entry in the sixteenth century tome, Compendium ...
It is produced by the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research from the artemisia plant - the source of an ingredient used in a malaria treatment - and other Malagasy plants. The drink has been ...
Artemisia annua usually makes only small amounts of the drug in its leaves Scientists have modified a plant's genetic sequence to make it produce high levels of a key malaria drug, potentially ...