Anything plants can grow...

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2964, 2014, págs. 34-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Barras talks about the best malaria drug in modified microbes. A revolution is brewing in Bulgaria-quite literally. In vats similar to those used to ferment beer, genetically modified yeast is churning out tonnes of a molecule that can easily be turned into the most potent antimalarial drug on the market today, artemisinin. Before the brewing began, all of the worlds artemisinin came from a Chinese plant called sweet wormwood.