The extraordinary chemistry hiding inside plants — and how science decoded it
Aspirin
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May 13, 2026
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8 min read
We produce 40,000 tonnes of it every year. It sits in every medicine cabinet on earth. And it started with a tree that humans were chewing for pain relief three and a half thousand years before any chemist arrived.
Peptides
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May 8, 2026
7 min read
From tree bark in your vaccine to a gut hormone that became Ozempic — nature had the answers long before any laboratory did.
