[PDF.74ug] The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

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 | #2100661 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2001-03-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.83 x5.98l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 298 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Not meant to be a novel for pleasure|By Gregory Tochtrop|This is not the type of book you take to the beach and cuddle up with. It is more of a historical chronicle of the logistic hurdles that it takes for a molecule to go from a bark extract to clinical trials. The other review of this book is critical of the lack of focus on the mechanism of action of taxol. I think that|.com |Environmentalists have long urged that threatened habitats--the old-growth forests of Appalachia, for instance, or the ian rainforest--be preserved on the off chance that the plants within them may contain natural cures for a host of ailments.| Such prov

Taxol is arguably the most celebrated, talked about, and controversial natural product in recent years. Celebrated because of its efficacy as an anticancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity. Talked about because in the early 1990s the American public was bombarded with news reports about the molecule and its host, the slow-growing Pacific yew tree. Controversial because the drug and the yew tree became e...

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