Not Signed In - Milestone In Quest For Cheap Antimalarial For Developing World
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:00 AM EST
... Artemisinin drugs have proved to be a miracle cure for malaria, but the cost of the plant-derived drug is prohibitively expensive for those in the developing world. UC Berkeley's Jay Keasling showed in 2004 that microbes with inserted yeast and wormwood genes could make a chemical precursor of artemisinin. Now, thanks to money from the Gates Foundation, his team has nearly reached its goal of total microbial synthesis of the drug. ...
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