Search For Cures From The Rain Forest

Can trees help fight cancer? How do scientists dscover new medicines in plants? How are people who live in rain forests important to drug research? The Search for Cures from the Rain Forest answers these questions and more as it takes readers on the hunt for new remedies in rain forests. Accurate text, effective images, and fact-packed sidebars help readers learn how scientists develop medicines by studying the rich variety of life in Earth's rain forests. Book jacket.Ballard, Carol is the author of 'Search For Cures From The Rain Forest ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780836845549 and ISBN 0836845544.