The Taxol Story-Development of a Green Synthesis via Plant Cell Fermentation

The Taxol Story-Development of a Green Synthesis via Plant Cell Fermentation  

Taxol is a natural product that has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Since 1992, it has been the API in certain chemotherapy agents provided to patients suffering from a variety of cancers and is approved for the treatment of ovarian, breast, non-smaU-ceU lung cancers and AIDS-related Kaposi s sarcoma in over 50 countries. 

1) Al the outset, it is pivotal to note that, as the author of this chapter, I can claim absolutely none of the credit for the dedication and commitment of the scientists, clinicians and hosts of other people who were the actual inventors and developers of Taxol through its various incarnations. I will simply try to tell the story. 

Edited by Peter J. Dunn, Andrew S. Wells and Michael T, Williams 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 978-3-527-32418-7 

From Extraction of Taxol from Pacific Yew Tree Bark to Semi-Synthetic Taxol  

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