The Florida State University community mourns the loss of esteemed chemist and noted inventor Robert Holton, whose groundbreaking synthesis of the cancer drug Taxol made it widely available to ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The Florida State University community is mourning a man credited with making the cancer drug Taxol globally available. Dr. Robert Holton’s synthesis of Taxol was deemed a ...

Perhaps the biggest challenge of organic synthesis in the 1990s was finding a route to produce significant quantities of paclitaxel, also known by the trade name Taxol. The compound, extracted from ...

Researchers from Tufts and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come one step closer to making strides against cancer with the recent discovery of a more efficient and cost-effective ...

Robert Holton, a chemist who helped develop an easier, cost-efficient way to produce the blockbuster cancer drug Taxol, paving the way for large-scale production of a medication that has been used to ...

Taxol (paclitaxel), the most well-known taxane diterpenoid, is the best-selling natural-source anticancer drug ever produced and one of the most common prescriptions in the treatment of breast, lung, ...

Taxol is one of the most commonly prescribed chemotherapy drugs for breast, ovarian, cervical, and lung cancer. Yet producing the drug is complex, costly, and environmentally burdensome, as it ...

The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers ...