The Rain Forests Medical Treasures

For many years now, scientist have been scouring tropical rain forests for botanical extracts that could cure some of the deadliest diseases. In 1967 Robin Foster discovered a tree that never flowered. After three years of studying this species of tree, it finally flowered. All at once the trees produced an array of light yellow and pink flowers. Unfortunately, these trees all died within a year of their flowering and fruiting. Robin also discovered that as …

…like this does not get shown on the news too much, so not many people are aware of what measures are being taken to cure diseases. I’m sure many people with life threatening diseases would help the further testing of these chemicals, if they were aware of them. With all the plants that have passed certain degrees of testing how come we are not yet closer to a cure to AIDS and fatal cancers?