Fungi provide ecological and environmental services to humans, as well as health and
nutritional benefits, and are vital to numerous industries. Fermented food and beverage …

The extensive use of antibiotics leading to the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance poses
high health risks to humans, but to date there is still lack of a quantitative model to properly …

Environmental biotechnology offers several promising techniques for the rehabilitation of
polluted environments. The modern industrialized world presents novel challenges to the …

Among the different pharmaceuticals present in soil and water ecosystems as micro-
contaminants, considerable attention has been paid to antibiotics, since their increasing use …

The wound healing process is usually susceptible to different bacterial infections due to the
complex physiological environment, which significantly impairs wound healing. The topical …

Actinobacteria are well-recognised biosynthetic factories that produce an extensive
spectrum of secondary metabolites. Recent genomic insights seem to impact the exploitation …

Microorganisms produce a wealth of structurally diverse specialized metabolites with a
remarkable range of biological activities and a wide variety of applications in medicine and …

Genomic data often highlights an inconsistency between the number of gene clusters
identified using bioinformatic approaches as potentially producing secondary metabolites …

Since ancient times, natural products from plants, animals, microbial and marine sources
have been exploited for treatment of several diseases. The knowledge of our ancestors is …

Coumarin and benzimidazole are privileged structures in medicinal chemistry and are
widely used in drug discovery and development due to their vast biological properties. The …