The team identified genes involved in making artemisinin, altering their activity to produce three times more of the drug than "normal" plants make. The plant-based production of the drug ...

The anti-malarial drug Artemisinin is highly effective. It's critical for kids, who are especially vulnerable. A new study ...

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 ...

A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, ...

That's where artemisinin comes in. Given intravenously at regular intervals, it can kill most of the parasites in a patient's blood within hours. But now, Namazzi has been seeing patients where ...