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Home » Canadian Drugmaker Producing Tamiflu Ingredient From Trees
Canadian Drugmaker Producing Tamiflu Ingredient From Trees
January 10, 2006
Canadian drug firm Biolyse Pharma has started mining Canadian evergreens for the main ingredient in antiviral Tamiflu — shikimic acid — and said it is poised to supply the ingredient to other drugmakers and governments in countries where Tamiflu isn’t patented.