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Tackling pain and mental health with plant-based medicines

Drug Discovery World

This was first demonstrated in 1899 with the production of aspirin, a semi-synthetic drug based on the natural product salicin isolated from white bark (Salix alba). DDW Volume 25 – Issue 1, Winter 2023/2024 Biography: Michael Krogh Jensen is a Co-founder and CEO of Biomia, founded in 2022.

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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

Lu Rahman selects some recent synthetic biology innovations and the potential they hold to benefit drug discovery. . The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape.

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Synthesised sea sponge molecule could fight Parkinson’s

Drug Discovery World

Each version is known as an enantiomer. When used in pharmaceuticals, one enantiomer of a molecule may have beneficial therapeutic effects while the other may do nothing at all – or even prove dangerous.