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Climber samples latex from a Calophyllum tree.
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Other species on earth hold the key to a greater understanding of human health, and also to new medicines that will maintain it.
Dr. David Newman was one of the participants at the April 1998 symposium, "The Value of Plants, Animals, and Microbes to Human Health," held at the American Museum of Natural History. Click on the video icon to hear more.
Dr. Newman is with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in Washington D.C., which sponsors a bio-prospecting program in sixty countries to locate plants with medicinal properties.
Click on Tracking Down a Power Plant for the amazing story of how a tree in the Sarawak rain forest containing a possible cure for AIDS was found, then lost . . . then found again.
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