Natural Products

The book "Natural Products: Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Medicine" offers a comprehensive analysis of the successes of natural products as medicines and their future prospects. It highlights both conventional and innovative technologies that enable the rapid assessment of the activities of extracts and pure components from microbes, plants, and marine organisms. The authors employ modern methods such as high-performance liquid chromatography, genomic and proteomic approaches, as well as bioinformatics techniques to promote new discoveries in the field of natural product medicine. The work addresses specific product groups, including traditional Chinese medicine and anticancer agents, and explores the diversity of microbial sources. It demonstrates how pharmaceutical research and development can be advanced through the integration of synthetic compounds and natural products to tackle challenges such as antibiotic resistance and emerging diseases.