Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt

firesquirt writes "From an article in LiveScience, the bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can supply the drug as well, suggesting a new way to commercially harvest the medicine."

Next headline...

[wbren]

"Pharmaceutical company patents dirt; Critics claim prior art"

In the greater scheme of things...

[mudshark]

... it's not all about yew, after all. It's the dirt from whence yew came, and where yew shall ultimately return....

Re:In the greater scheme of things...

[mrogers]

You're barking up the wrong tree.

And you though RMS was just a smelly hippie

[Timesprout]

When it turns out he is a shower dodger to avoid cancer.

Wow

[Tawg]

Now this is what i call a cancer Treetment.

Cancer Fighting Drug Found in Dirt

[Rik Sweeney]

*tch*

The things people throw away these days...

Re:Next headline...

[WallaceAndGromit]

... 8 year old sued for telling friend to eat dirt.

Re:In the greater scheme of things...

[sharkey]

Is this Dr. Land Fill?

"It's not about yew!!! You need to get right, and read my latest book: 'I Made Dirt, My Dirt Don't Hurt'".

Hopefully

[chanrobi]

It'll be dirt cheap for those who need it

Barking mad

[ciaran.mchale]

So it seems those new age, tree-hugging hippies weren't "barking" mad after all. They "yew" what they were doing all along. And I guess that, as far as pharmaceutical companies are concerned, money does grow on trees after all. Hey, that's "tree" of a kind so far. I'd better stop now and see if I can afford a mortgage on a tree house.

Well, there's a new one...

[Khyber]

Let the strip-mining operations to cure cancer begin!

Bah, it just goes to show

[50000BTU_barbecue]

Yews control the medecine market.