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- <text id=93TT1481>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: Good News For Yews
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Good News For Yews
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Few quests have been as feverish as the search for
- alternative sources of taxol, the anticancer drug derived from
- yew trees. So far, the best candidates have not made an impact
- on the price tag. A single treatment cycle costs nearly $1,000
- and may have to be repeated 10 times. Researchers from Montana
- report in Science that they have found the answer: a lowly tree
- fungus that produces the cancer-fighting chemical in minute
- quantities. If scientists can figure out how to boost the
- output, they should be able to create fermentation vats brimming
- with relatively inexpensive taxol.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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