The relentless rise in antimicrobial resistance has spurred intensive research into novel antibacterial agents derived from nature. Antibacterial natural products such as albicidin and cystobactamids ...

Many natural substances possess interesting characteristics, and can form the basis of new active compounds in medicine. Terpenes, for example, are a group of substances, some of which are already ...

"Herpotrichone" is a natural substance that has been evaluated highly for its excellent ability to suppress inflammation in the brain and protect nerve cells, displaying significant potential to be ...

Picrotoxinin is a compound with a far-reaching history. Very bitter and highly toxic, it occurs naturally in the seeds of a climbing plant called Anamirta cocculus, which grows in Southeast Asia. For ...

The Jingjing Wu group at the National Key Laboratory of Synergistic Materials Creation/Frontier Science Center for Transformative Molecules (FSCTM) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration ...