Colleagues quietly scoffed when Alessandra Devoto, a plant biologist, started dedicating her time to researching the medicinal properties of a roadside weed. After years of study, however, she appears to have proved them wrong. Scientists have found that Arabidopsis thaliana, … Continue reading ([London] Times) Plant Biologist Alessandra Devoto works for 14 years to discover the cinderella weed which kills breast cancer