No one is arguing that someone should get acupuncture instead of going to the emergency room when an appendix bursts, but countless people suffering from conditions dismissed as incurable or ...

An example of these is prostratin, initially isolated from the Samoan medicinal plant Homalanthus Nutans which, unlike phorbol, does not appear to activate PKC; on the contrary, it has been shown to ...

A similar engineering approach could be used to optimize other therapeutic terpenes such as taxol, which is used for cancer treatment, and prostratin, which is used in clinical trials for HIV ...