<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Interesting research below. </font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A quick check of Duke’s Phytochemical and ethnobotanical
Databases (<a href="http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl">http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/duke/ethnobot.pl</a>) and the University
of Michigan’s Native American Ehtnobotany Database (<a href="http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl">http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl</a>)
tell me this researcher may find something. </span><div>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">I hope that this NIH-funded research also considers conservation
issues – both of the plant itself and the animal that's named after it – not just its chemical constituents. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">-</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Patricia</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAGEBRUSH: A PRESCRIPTION FOR NEW MEDICINE? With garden
shears and some help from wildlife, a College of Idaho researcher might turn up
some new medicine</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">BY BILL ROBERTS</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Carolyn Dadabay is a drug prospector.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">She's searching for chemical compounds that will boost the
effectiveness of medicines like those used to attack cancer cells in
chemotherapy.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">She hopes to find them among the millions of sagebrush
plants dotting the desert of Southern Idaho. Wild animals are her guide.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Full article at: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/02/26/3664969_giving-up-sagebrushs-secrets.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/02/26/3664969_giving-up-sagebrushs-secrets.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p></div></div>