Many of our present medicines are derived directly or indirectly from higher plants. While
several classic plant drugs have lost much ground to synthetic competitors, others have …

Whereas other components of the National Institutes of Health support the discovery and
subsequent development of novel chemical entities into drugs, the National Center for …

Natural products are used since ancient times in folklore for the treatment of various
ailments. Plant‐derived products have been recognized for many years as a source of …

Bioactive natural products are a rich source of novel therapeutics. Thus, the search for
bioactive molecules from nature continues to play an important role in fashioning new …

The use of substances derived from plants, fungi, bacteria and marine organisms has a long
tradition in medicine. This book highlights the biodiversity-driven approaches which are now …

Paradigm shifts in the strategies and the sciences that would enhance the quality, safety,
and efficacy of traditional medicines and dietary supplements in global health care are …

In this chapter, some successful drugs derived from plant secondary metabolites in their
original or modified forms, and other substances, currently under clinical trial as drug …

Emerging threats to human health require a concerted effort in search of both preventive and
treatment strategies, placing natural products at the center of efforts to obtain new therapies …

Systematic, large-scale, studies at the genomic, metabolomic, and functional level have
transformed the natural product sciences. Improvements in technology and reduction in cost …

Notoriously cumbersome to isolate and challenging to synthesize, the path of natural
products to viable drugs is an arduous journey. Yet compounds isolated from nature may …