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Quinine fever

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John Woodland and Kelly Chibale retrace the tumultuous history of quinine from a medicine — used as a tool for colonialism — to a puzzling chemical target, a fluorescence standard and a key ingredient in popular drinks.

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Woodland, J.G., Chibale, K. Quinine fever. Nat. Chem. 14, 112 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-021-00872-2

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