Previously, paclitaxel was extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew, a slow growing Pacific Northwest tree, by stripping the bark of the tree. To make the medicine effective, it required an average ...

The Pacific yew was long considered a trash, or weed, tree that “contaminated” lumber companies' harvests of Douglas fir in the Northwest, often done by clear-cutting old forests. The ...

Today, these same poisons, initially extracted from the bark of Pacific yew trees, are produced synthetically for use in a range of chemotherapy cancer treatments. Yew’s lethal nature is likely ...

Visit the gnarled old tree that witnessed Magna Carta. The Ankerwycke Yew stands just outside the capital, about a mile west of the M25 at Runnymede. It's at least 35 times more ancient than the ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond ... be read under a microscope like tree rings to learn her age and ...

Check out some of the oldest (and weirdest) trees below. This yew tree isn't the Llangernyw yew, but many graveyards feature yew trees in the UK. The myth of the Llangernyw yew is enough to send ...

A "magnificent" Surrey yew tree, which is thought to be more than 500 years old, has been named the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year. The tree is growing in the grounds of the ruined Waverley ...

Benn Curran-Nicholls, 14, ingested yew tree berries, which contain poisonous seeds, and its toxic leaves on a walk in Manchester's Fletcher Moss Park. At the inquest, coroner Andrew Bridgman ...

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