Rising 40 feet behind a modest brick house in this Detroit suburb is an apparent descendant of one of the world's most famous trees. In 1973, Stella Barna planted a 2-foot sapling behind her home ...

A clone of the Hippocrates Tree was planted at the National Library of Medicine this month Legend has it that Hippocrates, the ancient Greek "father" of medicine, taught his students under a tree ...

At the Folly Tree Arboretum, a natural museum curated by an artist with a historian’s eye, ... Milarch made a few clones of the Hippocrates tree for the N.I.H. and kept a few for his own archive.

Grafts from a tree that provides a direct link back to Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician regarded as the father of medicine have been harvested to be planted on the site of The Commonwealth ...

WARREN, MICH. — Rising 40 feet behind a modest brick house in this Detroit suburb is an apparent descendant of one of the world's most famous trees. In 1973, Stella Barna planted a 2-foot ...

My granddaughter Colette and I would love to know the name and age of the magnificent ancient tree on the grounds of the NIH National Medical Library with the tag number 5014.

The bark of white willow (Salix alba), which Hippocrates may have been talking about, doesn’t contain much salicin, compared with other willows and salicin-rich plants like the myrtle tree.

Image caption, A clone of the Hippocrates Tree was planted at the National Library of Medicine this month Legend has it that Hippocrates, the ancient Greek "father" of medicine, taught his ...

The Hippocrates Tree at the National Library of Medicine provided the DNA for the barcode The DNA used to produce the barcode was extracted from the dead tree's wood, just under the bark.

Scientists produce a DNA "fingerprint" for a tree descended from one under which the Greek father of medicine taught his students.