"How did a single sentence from a 1,600-year-old medical text inspire a classified military project and redefine modern oncology and targeted immunology?" Long before it earned the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for eradicating drug-resistant tropical fevers, Artemisinin—the primary sesquiterpene lactone extracted from Sweet Wormwood (Artemisia annua)—remained one of botany's best-ke..