Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru's coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast swathes ...

Cinchona alkaloids have a long and storied history in chemistry. Derived from Cinchona plants, members of the molecular family include the chiral catalyst cinchonidine and quinine, an early ...

Posts touting the curative effects of cinchona, or fever tree, bark have recently been circulating on social networks such as Instagram and Facebook. These posts promise a "natural" source of the ...

More than two years after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake leveled the mountain village of Cinchona, claimed at least 30 lives and forced thousands to evacuate, 93 families who lost everything will have a ...

One of humankind’s greatest enemies has been the mosquito. More specifically, the female Anopheles mosquito that spreads malaria. Some experts reckon that the disease might have killed more than half ...

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines against malaria, a tropical fever caused by single-celled parasites of the genus ...

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The demand for land rights is brewing in cinchona plantations of Darjeeling hills following the state government’s announcement to grant land rights to tea garden workers. The over century-old ...

Pre-Columbian people used its bark as a medicine while South American liberator Simon Bolivar adopted it in Peru’s coat of arms, but the cinchona tree is facing a battle for survival as vast swathes ...

Posts touting the curative effects of cinchona, or fever tree, bark have recently been circulating on social networks such as Instagram and Facebook. These posts promise a “natural” source of the ...