A landmark study has revealed that wild chimpanzees use medicinal plants to treat themselves when ill, a finding that could assist in the search for new drugs ... the discovery of novel medicines ...

But traditional knowledge could be a rich resource for drug discovery ... would need for a medicinal drug,” she explains. “A common mistake would be to study different plant species in ...

Many drugs work by attaching themselves to disease-related proteins and temporarily shutting them down. But a novel strategy used ... resistant to classical drug-discovery paradigms, despite ...

However, prodrug intervention must be an integral part of the drug design and discovery strategy. Join Jarkko Rautio of the School of Pharmacy at University of Eastern Finland during this free ...