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Reference

2893

A Tree at the Origin of an Antineoplastic Drug

In this short film, Georges Massiot evokes the taxol, a molecule coming from the Pacific yew. It was discovered in the sixties, when the United States of America decided to declare the war to cancer. During the eighties, the felling of many European yews of the Gif-sur-Yvette campus allowed Pierre Potier and his team to discover a molecule looking like the taxol…

Duration

00:03:00

Production year

Définition

SD

Color

Color

Sound

Sound

Version(s)

French

Original material

Video DV Cam

Director(s)

Daniel FIEVET

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