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German scientists have discovered a cheap and simple method to synthesize anti-malaria drugs in large quantities from waste materials. Sweet wormwood, a plant that grows in Vietnam, China and a few other countries, is the source of artemisinin. Artemisinin is … Read More

Research drawing on New Zealand’s meningococcal B vaccine campaign has been praised as a potential breakthrough in the fight against the deadly disease. The trials of a Chilean-developed vaccine that offers protection against the B-group of meningococcal strains have shown … Read More

New research at Ohio State University has demonstrated that the drugs used to fight infectious diseases could be designed to block a pathogen from entering into healthy cells. In the study, researchers exhibited that an experimental agent could block one … Read More