2015-05-14

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The Professor and his colleagues devise greener ways to produce the anti-Malaria drug Artemisinin.

Artemisinin was first discovered in China.

The main article: http://bit.ly/1FaQNci

Additional info: http://bit.ly/Malaria_Supplementary

This video features Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff. He pays special thanks to his colleague Professor Michael George.

Also with thanks the EPSRC Manufacturing with Light programme and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Liquid Oxygen: /youtube/video/7NXfyCezUFk

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