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Media log BROADCAST Advances in genomics - BBC Radio 4 News and World Service Bulletin - February 2011 BBC Radio York Jonathon Cowap show- July 2010 Televisio de Catalunya El Medi Ambient - May 2010 Radio France international “Africa programme” http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/121/article_6669.asp - Jan 2010 Featured on BBC Science in Action - January 2010 BBC Radio 4 - The Today programme January 15 2010 Voice of America - January 14 2010 BBC World Service news - January 14 2010 BBC Radio York - January 2010 Adam Tomlinson show BBC Radio York - April 2009 - Jonathon Cowap show BBC Radio York News October 2008 BBC Radio York News April 2008 The Pulse-Al Jazeera, aired 3rd December 2007 BBC World Service news - 16th September 2007 - Read transcript here Featured on The “Material World" - BBC Radio 4,17th May 2007 Kill or Cure: The World’s Deadliest Diseases, Malaria - BBC World, Aired May 2004 - View using Real Player PRINTED School pupils shown how science combats malaria Huddersfield Daily Examiner March 2010 Project shortlisted for THES award-York Press October 2010 Kenya set to grow key plant in malaria drug - Kenya Standard August 2010 Demand for malaria drug soars- Nature, August 2010 Fast-track breeding of Artemisia-Outlooks on Pest Management July 2010 (subscription only) Cultivating the seeds of hope- Chemistry World June 2010 (subscription only) Drivers of innovation-Innovation UK magazine Artemisinin: Vagaries of weather and the market hamper deliveries-Financial Times May 2010 Genetic discovery by British scientists raises hopes -The Times January 2010 York scientists in malaria herb breakthrough - York press January 2010 Di Sana Pianta - Il Sole 24 Ore September 2009 Malaria is more deadly than swine flu - Guardian June 2009 Leading edge science - Financial Times April 2009 Region at the cutting edge - Yorkshire Post April 2009 Scientists in malaria battle -York Press June 2008 Artemisinin: diversifying the sources - RealHealthNews May 2008 (page20) Malaria no more? Has malaria finally met its scientific match? - Chemistry World April 2008 Gates’ university donation will bring economic benefits too - Yorkshire Post - 23rd June 2006 Gates makes £7m university research donation - The Guardian - 22nd June 2006 Billionaire digs deep to take on malaria - Yorkshire Post - 22nd June 2006 Bill’s £7m plant gift - The Daily Mirror - 22nd June 2006 - Gates’ $14m to beat malaria - York Press - 21st June 2006 ON-LINE August 2010 Genetics of Artemisia annua - Encyclopaedia Britannica blog January 2010 Gene map of anti-malaria plant could boost supply - BBC online Gene map for malaria offers hope - Daily Mail Medicinal plant yields secrets - Financial Times Plant could save millions from malaria -Daily Telegraph Gene map for malaria crop offers higher yield hope - Reuters Mehr pflanzliches Malariamittel - Die Welt Gene discovery could boost yield of key malaria drug - SciDevNet Gene_map_shows_way_to_better malaria medicine plant- Nature blog Genetic mapping completed - TropIKA August 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8178723.stm April 2009 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-chin/on-world-malaria-day-comm_b_191843.html November 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7735858.stm http://www.scidev.net/en/news/new-malaria-drug-technologies-unveiled.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200811250085.html http://africasciencenews.org/asns/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=807&Itemid=1 http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=55633 http://www.news-medical.net/?id=43134 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/129971.php http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=cn&nid=1340&ad=20-11-2008 http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/technologies_gearing_meet_rising_demand_vital_122697.html http://www.physorg.com/news146297270.html http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1825324-technology-to-eradicate-malaria http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=45818751 http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=129971 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-11/uoy-ntg111708.php http://www.menshealth.co.uk/Down-time/sport-entertainment-news-UK-news-men%E2%80%99s-news/249435/v3 http://www.hc2d.co.uk/news/article/Technology+could+wipe+out+malaria/ http://www.africanpath.com/p_comments.cfm?articleID=192163
June 2006 Microsoft's Gates gives $13M To U.K. university - Forbes.com Centre gets £7m malaria funding - BBC News Online
Also worth watching A feature on Artemisia growing in Uganda on BBC World http://bbcworldnews.survival.tv/documentaries/malaria.php
Transcript of BBC World Service interview. Broadcast weekend of 15-16 th September CUE: Scientists at the University of York in Britain are undertaking a massive plant breeding programme in an effort to come up with higher-yielding raw crops for use in anti-Malaria drugs. It's hoped new species of the Artemisia plant could lower the price of certain anti-Malarial drugs, as our Environment Reporter Matt McGrath has been finding out.) One of the key things in trying to develop the fight against malaria is to try and provide cheap drugs and a key element in that being looked at here at the University of York is artemisia, the plant of which most effective drugs come from. And the scientists here are trying to find ways of making the plants more productive so that ultimately the drugs may be cheaper. With me here in the greenhouse, the hot house, the glasshouse, is Dr Maggie Smallwood, who's one of the scientists working with these plants. What are you trying to do here? (SMALLWOOD) Well what we're doing here is employing the new technologies that have been made available over the last couple of years, few years, which are being applied in things like the human genomics programme, and here we're actually applying them to a plant that makes a drug that's essential for combating malaria. We're using high through-put technologies to screen thousands of these plants for the levels of the drug in the leaf tissue and then we're selecting out of that, literally about twenty-five-thousand plants, a very small number which produce high levels of this drug. I'm looking at the plants here and they've got a very distinctive kind of odour about them. They look a little bit like parsley for anybody who hasn't seen it in some ways. What particular part of the plant is useful for the drug and how does what you do here improve the chances of getting more of it? (SMALLWOOD) The plant actually is covered in green leaves, as you might expect, and on those leaves are little tiny factories called glandular trichomes where this drug is produced. And the farmers when they grow this plant harvest the leaves, dry the leaf tissue and the drug is extracted out of that dry leaf tissue. And it's all made in these tiny little groups of cells on the leaf tissue. And by looking at the genes that are involved in these groups of cells you're hoping to be able to find the ones that are involved in productivity and to breed more powerful plants? (SMALLWOOD) Yes exactly. So we're trying firstly to make those little factories actually make more of the drug and we're also trying to make the plant make more of those little factories, because if you could just increase the number of those little factories on the leaf tissue you should be able to increase the yield. You've got a wall of plants here and you say they're from many different parts of the world. What kind of things are you doing with these particular plants? (SMALLWOOD) We've got two approaches again here. So we've got natural diversity, which is the big plants you can see growing alongside the wall, where we've got accessions from different parts of the world, and then we've taken the highest yielding hybrid that's available at the moment and we've treated that with a chemical which enhances the plant's genetic diversity. And that's the material were actually screening in these big trays of plants that you can see growing along the middle benches. They obviously like a bit of heat because it's quite warm here. (SMALLWOOD) It's warm because we've turned off the air conditioning so it doesn't make a noise. It's not usually this warm. Thank you Dr Smallwood, and thanks for the heat as well . |
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