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A worthy adversary for malaria

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A remarkable set of antimalarial drug candidates has been developed by an international collaboration of scientists, using the age-old Chinese herbal medicine artemisinin as a template.

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Figure 1: Artemisinin and its analogues.

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O'Neill, P. A worthy adversary for malaria. Nature 430, 838–839 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/430838a

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