Mogens EngelundThe Fortingall Yew tree in Perthshire, U.K., could be the oldest living organism in Europe. Crowds of unruly people can be stressful in any situation, but it has been particularly ...

On Feb. 3, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game reported two elk calves had dropped dead in the Warm Springs part of Ketchum, Idaho. They join 19 other elk from Mapleton, Utah as the latest victims ...

Taxol was originally extracted from the inside bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia), but as the taxol content in the bark is very low, harvesting it meant removing all the bark and as a ...

A 1,600-year-old yew tree is being slowly destroyed by village vandals. Yobs have stripped the tree, which stands in St Mary's churchyard, Iffley, Oxford, of 20ft of bark in recent weeks. And ...

In 2018, Kitty Whitelaw of jazz duo Sealionwoman had just completed her dark, atmospheric debut album Siren with double bass player Tye McGivern, inspired by the Scottish folk tale of the selkie – a ...

As a critical yew tree becomes scarce, a Chinese study finds new pathway to rare anticancer compound. Advertisement. ... It makes up only about 0.004 per cent of the tree’s bark.

The authors describe some of the unique problems of using a natural product as a drug. For example, obtaining sufficient yew bark (the original source of taxol) for large clinical trials, let ...

Today, these same poisons, initially extracted from the bark of Pacific yew trees, are produced synthetically for use in a range of chemotherapy cancer treatments.

Robert A. Holton, a chemist who created a cheaper and environmentally kinder way to produce the cancer drug Taxol, synthesizing its key compound instead of extracting it from harvested yew trees ...