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11% originate from flowering plants and 25% of prescription drugs come from plant-derived ingredients. Life-saving drugs like common chemotherapy medicine Paclitaxel originate from yew tree bark, penicillin, & compounds found in fungi

Climate change and biodiversity loss puts a halt on how medicinal innovation develops

losing an important drug every two years due to biodiversity loss as extinction rates are 100 to 1000 times faster than previous years

https://blavity.com/biodiversity-medicinal-innovation

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