> From this weeks issue of New Scientist
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg19225832.500

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> CHRISTMAS trees into Tamiflu - it doesn't quite have the ring of "swords
> into ploughshares", but it may save as many lives. That, at least, is what
> the Canadian firm Biolyse Pharma of St Catharines, Ontario, is suggesting.
>
> Flu pills from Christmas trees