ILLAHEE, Wash. – The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific yew tree in the United States has come to an end. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs – celebrated for ...

The widely used chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, commonly known as Taxol, was first extracted from the Pacific yew tree in 1963.

Originally, Taxol was extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Each treatment required stripping bark from two full-grown trees – effectively killing them. And these trees take up to a ...

For 30 years, scientists around the world have tried to understand how taxol, a natural compound derived from the Pacific yew tree, forms in nature. Decoding this process would allow for biotech ...

And one of them was taxol, Paclitaxel, which is derived from the Pacific yew tree. And these trees grow all around me in the forests around me. And it was discovered actually from Aboriginal knowledge ...

The Florida State University community mourns the loss of esteemed chemist and noted inventor Robert Holton, whose groundbreaking synthesis of the cancer drug Taxol made it widely available to ...

First discovered in the Pacific yew tree in 1962, paclitaxel is an FDA-approved anticancer drug used to treat breast, ovarian and lung cancer.

For 30 years, scientists around the world have tried to understand how taxol, a natural compound derived from the Pacific yew tree, forms in nature.

The Pacific yew was long considered a trash, or weed, tree that “contaminated” lumber companies' harvests of Douglas fir in the Northwest, often done by clear-cutting old forests. The ...

Paclitaxel – sold under the brand name Taxol – is a well-known anticancer compound. First discovered in the Pacific yew tree in 1962, paclitaxel is an FDA-approved anticancer drug used to ...