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Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-shovel-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away dept.

firesquirt writes "From an article in LiveScience, the bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can supply the drug as well, suggesting a new way to commercially harvest the medicine."

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  1. Next headline... by wbren · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pharmaceutical company patents dirt; Critics claim prior art"

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    1. Re:Next headline... by WallaceAndGromit · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... 8 year old sued for telling friend to eat dirt.

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  2. In the greater scheme of things... by mudshark · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... it's not all about yew, after all. It's the dirt from whence yew came, and where yew shall ultimately return....

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    1. Re:In the greater scheme of things... by mrogers · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're barking up the wrong tree.

    2. Re:In the greater scheme of things... by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is this Dr. Land Fill?

      "It's not about yew!!! You need to get right, and read my latest book: 'I Made Dirt, My Dirt Don't Hurt'".

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  3. And you though RMS was just a smelly hippie by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    When it turns out he is a shower dodger to avoid cancer.

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  4. Wow by Tawg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now this is what i call a cancer Treetment.

  5. Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    *tch*

    The things people throw away these days...

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  6. Hopefully by chanrobi · · Score: 2, Funny

    It'll be dirt cheap for those who need it

  7. Barking mad by ciaran.mchale · · Score: 2, Funny

    So it seems those new age, tree-hugging hippies weren't "barking" mad after all. They "yew" what they were doing all along. And I guess that, as far as pharmaceutical companies are concerned, money does grow on trees after all. Hey, that's "tree" of a kind so far. I'd better stop now and see if I can afford a mortgage on a tree house.

  8. Well, there's a new one... by Khyber · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let the strip-mining operations to cure cancer begin!

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  9. Bah, it just goes to show by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yews control the medecine market.

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