Chemist develops new synthesis of most useful, yet expensive, antimalarial drug
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 11:51
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.