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just a footnote to your fine comment: the origin of that particular drug is the Pacific Yew https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/success_stories/s2_taxol.htm
by HillaryBriss 10y ago
just a footnote to your fine comment: the origin of that particular drug is the Pacific Yew
https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/success_stories/s2_taxol.htm https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/success_stories/s2_tax...
this same tree, as you indicate, was also used by Native Americans for making hunting bows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_bow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_bow
- agumonkey 10y agoI think the original taxol was made from Pacific Yew, but the synthesis is from another kind yielding a precursor molecule.