Green Technology To Boost Production Of Malaria 'wonder Drug'

... New technologies that make the large-scale extraction of a natural antimalarial 'wonder drug' both cheaper and greener are to be developed and trialled in a new European effort.Since it was first extracted from the herb Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua) by Chinese scientists in the 1980s, artemisinin has proven to be a potent anti-malarial treatment. [click link for full article] ...