Vietnam Research Leads To Cancer Drug In Abundant Local Plant (Vietnam)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Vietnamese scientists report success in extracting from the local Sensitive plant the amino acid used in treating cancer. They said their four years of work led to the ability to extract alkaloid mimosine from the mimosa pudica plant and could be used in a drug much cheaper than drugs that now have to be imported. The mimosa pudica Sensitive plant is abundant in Vietnam. (Click here for more