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.
IU chemist develops new synthesis of most useful, yet expensive, antimalarial drug
- EurekAlert
- 13. 9 2012 (06:00)