The Florida State University community mourns the loss of esteemed chemist and noted inventor Robert Holton, whose ...

As a chemist at Florida State, he pioneered techniques used in the large-scale production of Taxol, a blockbuster anti-cancer agent.

When USDA botanist Arthur Barclay collected a sample of bark from the Pacific yew tree in Washington State in 1962, he had no way of knowing that the sample would yield one of the most important ...

The National Cancer Institute screened 35,000 plants. One particular sample Barclay collected, the bark of the Pacific Yew tree, went on to provide what is now one of the most highly prescribed ...

Some conservation groups were angered when the government granted Bristol Myers-Squibb an exclusive contract to process 750,000 pounds of Pacific yew bark from national parks this year.

Call it a hunch, luck or fate—it matters little today, four decades after Dr. Barclay stood on a hillside in the shadow of Washington’s Mount St. Helens and collected his first samples of Pacific yew ...

ILLAHEE, Wash. – The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific yew tree in the United States has come to an end. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green limbs – celebrated for ...

Taxol, the anti-cancer drug, is produced naturally in the bark of Pacific Yew trees, which take 80 years to grow. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

In 1971, researchers seeking plants that may possess anti-cancer properties discovered a chemical compound in the bark of relative of T. canadensis called pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia). This chemical ...

ILLAHEE — The reign of a contender for the title of oldest Pacific Yew tree in the United States came to an end this winter at Illahee State Park. The yew's gnarled, bubbly bark and green ...

Thieves have stripped 500 pounds of bark from 56 Pacific yew trees, which contain the ingredient for a promising cancer treatment. Taxol, a drug that recent studies show effectively treats ovarian ...

Taxol was originally extracted from the inside bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia), but as the taxol content in the bark is very low, harvesting it meant removing all the bark ...