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马兜铃酸：您用的中药还安全吗？

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | October 24th, 2017

马兜铃酸是一些中草药中含有的有毒化合物，可以引发肾衰竭和癌症。如果你吃中药，你应该担心吗？...

Aristolochic Acid: Is Your Chinese Medicine Safe?

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | October 24th, 2017

Aristolochic acid is a toxic compound found in some Chinese herbs and may cause kidney failure and cancer. If you take herbal medicine, should you worry about it? In the last few days, you...

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Chinese Medicine Researcher Awarded Nobel Prize For Malaria Cure

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | October 6th, 2015

I was awakened to the amazing news yesterday that Tu Youyou was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. This is the first time for a China-based scientist to win a Nobel...

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震撼，诺贝尔科学奖中国本土科学家零的突破

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | October 6th, 2015

84高龄的屠呦呦获得诺贝尔医学奖是实至名归。作为生物学家，我近20年前就从国际科学界了解到青蒿素的发现如何备受推崇。一是挽救了无数生命特别是在非洲，二是青蒿素本身又是一个新类型的化学结构，为人类认识新的分子和新药开发做出了贡献。...

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Test Liquor by detecting DNA? Why the New York Attorney General’s test on herbal supplements is likely flawed?

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | February 6th, 2015

Early this week I was shocked at reading the news that the New York Attorney General (NYAG) is accusing 4 US national retailers, Walgreen, GNC, Target, and Walmart, of selling bogus herbal supplements in...

Herbal Medicine: Does it Work?

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | November 20th, 2014

Interested in trying herbal medicine? You’re not alone! The popularity of herbal medicine is steadily increasing in the United States. Surveys have showed that half of American adults used herbal supplements within the past...

Herbal Medicines: Are They Safe?

Sheldon Li, Ph. D. | November 19th, 2014

As someone who has worked for more than 20 years in the field of cutting-edge biomedical research, I have witnessed the debate over the effectiveness and safety of herbal medicines. Let’s examine a case from...

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‘America’s Nobel’ awarded to Chinese scientist

ActiveHerb Post | November 19th, 2014

One of medicine's most prestigious prizes this year goes to scientists who discovered how 'machines' within cells control the folding of proteins, a researcher who discovered a new treatment for malaria in ancient Chinese...