Many of today’s drugs come from vast libraries of synthetic compounds built by chemists for big pharma. This drug development method is a far cry from the days of identifying drugs from nature, but ...

While food has long been known to influence and improve human health, recent scientific advances and nutritional innovations in food product development have aided the development of designer foods ...

Marine organisms and their microbial symbionts are invaluable sources of new medicines for human diseases. Natural products from the sea have four times higher potential to become medicines than any ...

German pectin specialist Herbstreith & Fox claimed this week that it is endeavouring to exploit the raw materials used for pectin production as completely as possible with regards to process ...

A team of researchers from Japan has demonstrated a light-based reaction that yields high numbers of the base chemical component required to produce bioactive compounds used in common industry ...

Study finds pigmented japonica rice like black and green varieties contain bioactive lipids and show slower starch digestion ...

Emory University postdoctoral researcher Rami Najjar investigates how nutrition and polyphenols target molecular pathways in ...

Shandong researchers suggest that edible and medicinal fungi contain bioactive components with therapeutic potential for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Findings offer evidence for the ...