Comments on: Chinese Remedy To Challenge ‘Madam’ Anopheles http://themoderatevoice.com/20157/chinese-remedy-to-challenge-madam-anopheles/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: GreenDreams http://themoderatevoice.com/20157/chinese-remedy-to-challenge-madam-anopheles/comment-page-1/#comment-145058 GreenDreams Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:33:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/health/disease/20157/chinese-remedy-to-challenge-madam-anopheles/#comment-145058 Man, what a slow moving story. Artemisinin has been heralded since the 70s and is now in sufficient use that there is artemisinin resistant malaria. The challenge has always been to get it below a dollar a treatment. It's a mystery why the easy to grow plant hasn't been adopted as a home grown crude drug. You know, the way the ancient Chinese used it.<br><br>And these schemes to grow drugs in yeast cell culture almost always sound better than they turn out. Man, what a slow moving story. Artemisinin has been heralded since the 70s and is now in sufficient use that there is artemisinin resistant malaria. The challenge has always been to get it below a dollar a treatment. It's a mystery why the easy to grow plant hasn't been adopted as a home grown crude drug. You know, the way the ancient Chinese used it.

And these schemes to grow drugs in yeast cell culture almost always sound better than they turn out.

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