Now it can be bioengineered from bread yeast.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wonders of Bread
Taking common bakers yeast and genetically engineering it has allowed scientists to create a drug, artemisinin, to treat malaria. Currently artemisinin is extracted from wormwood plants, the leaves dried and cured and the chemical extracted . . . much like athelas which Aragorn went to great pains to find while in the wild and after Frodo had been stabbed by the Morgul blade.
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