artemisia

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Laboratory-grown artemisinin, a key antimalarial drug, went on sale in April with the potential to help stabilize supply issues.

Newman and two other young post-docs#eith Kinkead Reiling and Neil Renninger#started Amyris in 2003 and set their sights on artemisinin,

pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, has manufactured 35 tons of artemisinin#roughly equivalent to 70 million courses of treatment.

Artemisinin is farmed by an estimated 100,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam and China and the vanilla plant by 200,000 in Madagascar, Mexico and beyond.

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The Guardian covered the conference by focusing on a recent lab achievement to produce the antimalarial drug, artemisinin

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