华盛顿大学的研究人员已于近期从一种传统中药中研发出一种新复合物,在杀伤某些特定种类的癌细胞方面,它能发挥比目前可用的抗癌药物高出1200多倍的效应。这宣告了一种更有效且不良反应小的化疗新药诞生的可能性。这种新的抗癌复合物将一个新型的扭体放置在普通的抗疟疾药物——青蒿素上。青蒿素来源于一种早在两千多年前已被用作中草药的植物——青蒿(学名黄 Researchers at the University of Washington have recently developed a new complex from a traditional Chinese medicine that produces more than 1,200 times more effect than any currently available anticancer drug in killing certain types of cancer cells . This proclaimed the possibility of a more effective and less adverse drug chemotherapy drug emergence. The new anticancer complex places a new twist on the common anti-malaria drug artemisinin. Artemisinin comes from a plant that has been used as a Chinese herbal medicine as early as two thousand years ago - Artemisia