Chemist Develops New Synthesis of Most Useful, Yet Expensive, Antimalarial Drug
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 10:55
in Health & Medicine
In 2010 malaria caused an estimated 665,000 deaths, mostly among African children. Now, chemists at Indiana University have developed a new synthesis for the world's most useful antimalarial drug, artemisinin, giving hope that fully synthetic artemisinin might help reduce the cost of the live-saving drug in the future.