Can a medicine cause a war? The treatment for Malaria may just have. Can a medicine cause a war? When chemists isolated a new compound from the bark of a South American tree, they had no idea they ...

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines ...

Tonic water is a carbonated soda water with dissolved quinine and often added sugars. Tonic water is higher in calories and sugars than many other mixed drink ingredients. Club soda could be a ...

Researchers mapped the full biosynthesis of quinine in cinchona trees, identifying key enzymes and intermediates. The ...

Malaria is one of the world's "big three" infectious diseases. In 2020 alone, it infected roughly 240,000 million people and caused 630,000 deaths worldwide. Quinine, an alkaloid derived from the ...

Enzymes that play a crucial role in the production of the malaria drug quinine and other important cinchona alkaloids have ...

Because a Spaniard in Peru discovered just 300 years ago that crude quinine cured malaria, most devastating of diseases the world over,** a small group of learned botanists and pharmacologists met in ...

Maybe you’re curious about the ingredients in your gin and tonic — or maybe you saw “quinine” on a nutrition label and want to make sure what you’re drinking is safe for consumption. Quinine is, after ...