The surging growth of the pharmaceutical industry is a result of the rapidly increasing human
population, which has inevitably led to new biomedical and environmental issues. Aside …

Natural product research aims to characterize specialized metabolites from various living
organisms and assess their biological properties from either a chemical ecology or drug …

Microorganisms have a long track record as important sources of novel bioactive natural
products, particularly in the field of drug discovery. While microbes have been shown to …

The development of new drugs will certainly benefit from an ever improving knowledge of
the living beings chemistry. However, identification of drugable molecules within the …

Covering: 2008 to 2012Since the last comprehensive review by Otto Sticher on natural
product isolation in NPR (O. Sticher, Nat. Prod. Rep., 2008, 25, 517), a plethora of new …

Covering: 1993–2014 (July) To alleviate the dereplication holdup, which is a major
bottleneck in natural products discovery, scientists have been conducting their research …

The phytochemical research based on ethnopharmacology is considered an effective
approach in the discovery of novel chemicals entities with potential as drug leads …

Analytical size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), commonly used for the determination of
the molecular weight of proteins and protein-protein complexes in solution, is a relative …

Flavonoids have elicited significant attention as a result of their importance in plants, their
influence on the properties of natural-product derived commodities and especially as a …

Metabolomics is playing an increasingly important role in plant science. It aims at the
comprehensive analysis of the plant metabolome which consists both of primary and …