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Nature 440, 940-943 (13 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04640;

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Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast

Malaria is a global health problem that threatens 300–500 million people and kills more than one million people annually. Disease control is hampered by the occurrence of multi-drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

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