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News Report on Pine Needle/Tamiflu Project

WABI television broadcast a Monday report about a UMaine chemistry research effort.  A team led by professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole, both of whom were interviewed in the story, are developing better ways to extract a specific acid from pine needles.  That acid is a primary ingredient in Tamiflu, a medicine commonly used to treat influenza.

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