Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a structurally diverse group of plant specialized
metabolites with a long history of investigation. Although the ecophysiological functions of …

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is one of the world's oldest medicinal plants and
remains the only commercial source for the narcotic analgesics morphine, codeine and semi …

Medicinal Natural Products, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide providing information
on all classes of natural products in medicine. It builds upon fundamental chemical …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated9
(Cas9) endonuclease system is a powerful RNA-guided genome editing tool. CRISPR/Cas9 …

The therapeutic use of herbs is as old as human civilization and has evolved along with it.
The vast majority of people on this planet still rely on their indigenous system of medicine …

The severe anticancer situation as well as the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
cancer cells has created an urgent need for the development of novel anticancer drugs with …

Background & Objective: The emergence of multidrug-resistant virus, bacteria and fungi has
created an urgent need for the development of novel antibiotic drugs from natural products …

Noscapine is a phthalideisoquinoline alkaloid, which represents a class of plant specialized
metabolites within the large and structurally diverse group of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids …

As the major psychoactive agent in opium and direct precursor for heroin, morphine is a
historically critical molecule in chemical neuroscience. A structurally complex phenanthrene …

Aristolochic acids (AAs) and their derivatives are present in multiple Aristolochiaceae
species that have been or are being used as medicinal materials. During the past decades …