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In 2010, she planted the seed, nicknamed “Sheba,” inside a greenhouse in the Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Israel and it grew into a tree in ... there no balm in Gilead?

For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no modern counterpart. For 14 years, scientists have been growing a ...

The resin of a tree germinated from a mysterious 1,000-year-old seed found in a Judean Desert cave could be the source of the ...

I was anxious to know if the “Balm of Gilead” trees were still there, but they weren’t. The lady who now owns the place, Wendy Kelly, was gracious enough to walk around with me as I pointed ...