Tag: natural products

A comprehensive review finds that the traditional Indian medicinal herb Leucas aspera contains roughly sixty bioactive compounds with antimicrobial, antidiabetic, ...

Scientists have engineered a self-assembling, temperature-responsive hydrogel from two traditional Chinese herbs that suppresses liver cancer and malignant ascites by ...

Researchers have characterized enzymes that form allene and alkyne motifs in natural products by demethylating prenyl groups in a single ...

Adding cellulose fibers to Streptomyces cultures shrinks pellets, reduces many known antibiotics, and uncouples metabolite production from each species' biosynthetic ...

New research shows that gastrodin, a compound from the traditional Chinese medicine herb Gastrodia elata, restores T cell receptor signaling ...

Vietnamese researchers report that Piper betle essential oil prevented resistance development in Staphylococcus aureus over 30 days and restored antibiotic ...

Researchers report that two compounds from the soil bacterium Streptomyces chrestomyceticus ADP4 inhibit both the CYP51 ergosterol enzyme and exo-beta-1,3-glucanase ...

Polysaccharides extracted from the wood ear mushroom protected bone in an osteoporosis rat model and promoted osteoblast differentiation through the ...

An integrated study of Liriope platyphylla root identifies 63 lipophilic compounds and shows antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in macrophage cells.

Scientists report that solanesol, a plant terpenoid from tobacco leaves, matched metformin's antidiabetic effects in mice at a forty-fold lower ...