Compounds from periwinkle plant could become more effective cancer drugs

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

Humans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by genetically engineering them to produce unnatural variants of their usual products.

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