The loss of plant species will likely result in the loss of possible critical medical treatments. Curcusones which are compounds that come from a shrub named Jatropha curcas, also called the purging nut, helps treat a previous untreatable cancer.

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A chemist has found a way to synthesize a compound to fight a previously ‘undruggable’ cancer protein with benefits across a myriad of cancer types.