Drug discovery strategies for both pharmaceutical and agrochemical applications are at a
stage of rapid development. More than 30% of sales of drugs for human consumption …

BACKGROUND: Nature has been a source of medicinal products for millennia, with many
useful drugs developed from plant sources. Following discovery of the penicillins, drug …

Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive
number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, particularly plants, with …

The introduction of high-throughput synthesis and combinatorial chemistry has precipitated
a global decline in the screening of natural products by the pharmaceutical industry. Some …

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 …

The therapeutic properties of plants have been recognised since time immemorial. Many
pathological conditions have been treated using plant-derived medicines. These medicines …

Natural products and their related moieties have historically been incredible as a source of
therapeutic agents. In last 5-10 years, research into natural products in the pharmaceutical …

Natural products and their derivatives have been and continue to be rich sources for drug
discovery. However, natural products are not drugs. They are produce in nature and through …

In the highly competitive environment of contemporary pharmaceutical research, natural
products provide a unique element of molecular diversity and biological functionality which …

Natural sources offer a wealth of chemically diverse compounds that have been evolutionary
preselected to modulate biochemical pathways. Several industrial and academic groups are …