The COVID-19 pandemic has made it essential to explore alternative antiviral materials.
Alginate is a biodegradable, renewable, biocompatible, water-soluble and antiviral …

The peer-reviewed marine pharmacology literature in 2007–8 is covered in this review,
which follows a similar format to the previous 1998–2006 reviews of this series. The …

Algae have been used since ancient times as food, fodder, fertilizer and as source of
medicine. Nowadays seaweeds represent an unlimited source of the raw materials used in …

Only a mere fraction of the huge variety of human pathogenic viruses can be targeted by the
currently available spectrum of antiviral drugs. The severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Abstract HIV Transcription and Tat Protein. HIV Tat protein (A), bound to the TAR RNA stem–
loop structure, binds to the P-TEFb complex (B), activating transcriptional elongation by RNA …

Featured Application Biodegradable composite biomaterials with antimicrobial properties.
Abstract The World Health Organization has called for new effective and affordable …

Marine organisms have been recognized as a valuable source of bioactive compounds with
industrial and nutraceutical potential. Recently, marine-derived carbohydrates, including …

The mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU)—a calcium uniporter on the inner membrane of
mitochondria—controls the mitochondrial calcium uptake in normal and abnormal situations …

Microglia plays a prominent role in the brain's inflammatory response to injury or infection by
migrating to affected locations and secreting inflammatory molecules. However …

A large proportion of all life on Earth lives in the ocean. Marine life includes microscopic life,
plants, algae, invertebrates, fungi, and vertebrates. Due to the high salinity, high pressure …