Poison Plants Revolutionize Medicine (VIDEO)

Emory Health Sciences

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Emory University ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave discusses how poisons in plants have been adapted to revolutionize modern medicine, everything from surgery to congestive heart failure and cancer treatments.

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