surfsteve wrote:pcslim wrote:Saving lives with synthetic biology
Great stuff!
Although some people seem to make a hobby of demonizing pharaceutical companies, the underlying science is fascinating and if we could get rid of some of the shifty business practices the potential benefits are enormous!
Odd that they mentioned that the plant artemis was in short supply. As far as I know it's also known as wormwood. A plant that I thought was very common. It is normally used to get rid of parasites, especially worms like it's name "wormwood" suggests. Another thing it is used for is to make absynth, an intoxicating beverage.
I found this link that already sells artemis as a prepared extract in pill form.
http://www.altcancer.net/artemis.htm
Maybe the guys in your video want a synthetic version so they can patent it?
I don't believe them when they say it is because it is in short supply because it's so cheap and easy to get wormwood already. The link above also says it works against cancer.
Another thing that is misleading is that they appear to be looking at an asparagus fern while they are talking about the plant artemis. If you use google images for asparagus fern, artemis and wormwood you will see what I am talking about. It caught my attention the first time but for got to mention it and it's sort of bothering me so I thought I would.