The results of research led by scientists at Harvard Medical School suggest that a natural product antibiotic first isolated back in the 1940s may be effective against potentially lethal, multidrug ...

Duke-NUS Medical School today announced the appointment of Professor Hendrik Luesch from the University of Florida (UF) as a joint faculty member. Prof Luesch, a renowned figure in natural drugs ...

Duke-NUS Medical School today announced the appointment of Professor Hendrik Luesch from the University of Florida (UF) as a joint faculty member. Prof Luesch, a renowned figure in natural drugs ...

A collaborative effort by the research groups of Professor Haruhiko Fuwa from Chuo University and Professor Masashi Tsuda from Kochi University has culminated in the structure elucidation and total ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by José R. Tormo, Arnau Comajuncosa-Creus, Teresa Sardón, Germán Martínez, Fernando Reyes, Patrick Aloy and Olga Genilloud, which was presented at ...

Nilmani Singh, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Huimin Zhao, and Yujie Yuan developed the automated platform FAST-NPS to accelerate bioactive natural product discovery. From caffeine to ...

Capturing compounds directly from the organisms’ natural habitats could help avoid this bottleneck, one that has limited product discovery to what microbes can be made to produce in the lab. “When we ...

Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. Both these compounds, which use never-before-seen antimicrobial mechanisms, were found using techniques that let researchers look deep into the ...

From caffeine to penicillin, natural products have become a mainstay in modern society, and are used for numerous applications, such as medicine and pesticides. There are tens of thousands of untapped ...