Natural products have been a rich source of compounds for drug discovery. However, their
use has diminished in the past two decades, in part because of technical barriers to …

Marine environments are largely unexplored and can be a source of new molecules for the
treatment of many diseases such as malaria, cancer, tuberculosis, HIV etc. The Marine …

Most biologically active microbial natural products are known from strains that can be
isolated and cultivated in the laboratory. However, the genomics era has revealed that …

Microbial biotechnology is an emerging field with greater applications in diverse sectors
involving food security, human nutrition, plant protection, and overall basic research in the …

Natural product search is undergoing resurgence upon the discovery of a huge previously
unknown potential for secondary metabolite (SM) production hidden in microbial genomes …

Actinomycetes are remarkable producers of compounds essential for human and veterinary
medicine as well as for agriculture. The genomes of those microorganisms possess several …

Over the years, antibiotics have provided an effective treatment for a number of microbial
diseases. However recently, there has been an increase in resistant microorganisms that …

There is currently an escalating global demand for the utilization of plant and natural extracts
as pesticides due to their minimal health risks. Cyanobacteria are highly valuable organisms …

After years of inadequate use and the emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains, the
efficiency of “classical” antibiotics has decreased significantly. New drugs to fight MDR …

Most members of the phylum Planctomycetes share many unusual traits that are unique for
bacteria, since they divide independent of FtsZ through asymmetric budding, possess a …