This represents a great opportunity, and three years ago Taiwan's Union Chemical Laboratories (UCL) began R & D work on taxol, and the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI), building on its knowledge of Taiwan's forest resources, also began culturing Taiwan yew to extract the drug.
三年前，工業技術研究院化學工業研究所遂投入紅豆杉醇的開發，林業試驗所基於對台灣森林資源潛力的瞭解，也開始進行紅豆杉醇的開發。