Posts touting the curative effects of cinchona, or fever tree, bark have recently been circulating on social networks such as Instagram and Facebook. These posts promise a "natural" source of the ...

Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru's coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast swathes ...

One of humankind’s greatest enemies has been the mosquito. More specifically, the female Anopheles mosquito that spreads malaria. Some experts reckon that the disease might have killed more than half ...

Cinchona alkaloids have a long and storied history in chemistry. Derived from Cinchona plants, members of the molecular family include the chiral catalyst cinchonidine and quinine, an early ...

Posts touting the curative effects of cinchona, or fever tree, bark have recently been circulating on social networks such as Instagram and Facebook. These posts promise a “natural” source of the ...

Colombo, May 24 (Daily Mirror) - Several well-grown cinchona plants belonging to a plant species considered extinct in Sri Lanka have been found after 150 years in Unanagala in the western slopes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Roque Rodriguez shows a piece of cinchona bark, which is used in anti-malaria medicine Pre-Columbian people used its ...

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Species is used in the production of anti-malaria medicine LIMA: Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru’s coat of arms, but ...