Fabled 'vegetable lamb' plant contains potential treatment for osteoporosis
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 04:21
in Biology & Nature
The 'vegetable lamb' plant - once believed to bear fruit that ripened into a living baby sheep - produces substances that show promise in laboratory experiments as new treatments for osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease. That's the conclusion of a new study in ACS' monthly Journal of Natural Products...