The plant-based production of the drug sometimes ... the sole source of the World Health Organization recommended treatment for malaria, which continues to be a devastating disease in the ...

It has been used traditionally for the treatment of wounds and ... showed that most of the medicinal plants were more effective for the prevention of malaria than for curative purposes.

Peru is the native land of many endangered and unique plants. The Cinchona tree, the source of the early malaria treatment ...

Biotechnology company Sanaria in Rockville, Md., plans to open a new malaria vaccine plant that was funded partially by a $29.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and $3.5 ...

She says. Genetic mapping of the plant was done early this year to accelerate the breeding of the herb needed for malaria treatment. But the real determinant of the superiority of the hybrids will ...

The earliest record of a plant being used to cure disease was Artemesia, for the treatment of malaria, was discovered in China 2,000 years ago. Since the 1800’s the discovery of quinine (from the ...