Biosynthetic advance could halve the cost of widely used cancer drug

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May 19, 2025, 11:48 am103 ptsTrending
The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30…

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