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Published online 8 August 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000810-6
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Herbal healing
Tiny changes that transform one enzyme into another could bring unnatural, helpful medicines, Philip Ball reports.
Some of our best medicines come straight from nature. Uses of medicinal plants, often with a long tradition in cultural folklore, lead researchers to useful substances -- but chemists increasingly want to broaden this natural product range by modifying cell machinery that plants use to make drugs.
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