UK researchers explore new medical niche for crops
UK researchers explore new medical niche for crops 14 December 2020 | by FarmingUK Team | Arable, News The aim of the research is to manipulate the levels of essential oils in crops such as lavender Farmers could be growing more high value crops for pharmaceuticals if research into treating an aggressive form of lymphoma proves successful. Researchers have recently discovered that specific essential oils inhibit cancer cell growth in Mantle Cell lymphoma, which has a survival rate of just three to five years. No new biomedical compounds are helping to prolong patient survival, but plants hav...
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