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0 pointsHillaryBriss9y ago0 comments

just a footnote to your fine comment: the origin of that particular drug is the Pacific Yew

this same tree, as you indicate, was also used by Native Americans for making hunting bows

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I think the original taxol was made from Pacific Yew, but the synthesis is from another kind yielding a precursor molecule.

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I think the original taxol was made from Pacific Yew, but the synthesis is from another kind yielding a precursor molecule.

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