Yew trees are another plant that is toxic to pets, especially if ingested, as per the American Society for the Prevention of ...

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers ...

For 30 years, scientists around the world have tried to understand how taxol, a natural compound derived from the Pacific yew tree, forms in nature. Decoding this process would allow for biotech ...

And that was Taxol, paclitaxel, which is derived from the Pacific yew tree. And these trees grow all around me, in the forests around me. And so, then I started it and I did start to feel better. At ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have made a breakthrough in the biosynthetic production of Taxol, a widely used chemotherapy drug.