Natural products and drug discovery. Can thousands of years of ancient medical knowledge lead us to new and powerful drug combinations in the fight against cancer and dementia?

Multipotent natural agents to combat Alzheimer's disease. Functional spectrum and structural features

(2008) Hong-fang JI et al.   ACTA PHARMACOLOGICA SINICA

Xenohormesis: Sensing the Chemical Cues of Other Species

(2008) Konrad T. Howitz et al.   CELL

The Impact of Arabidopsis on Human Health: Diversifying Our Portfolio

(2008) Alan M. Jones et al.   CELL

Natural Compounds: Leads or Ideas? Bioinspired Molecules for Drug Discovery

(2008) Terence Beghyn et al.   Chemical Biology & Drug Design

Convergent Evolution of Medicines

(2008) De-Xin Kong et al.   ChemMedChem

Natural products in drug discovery

(2008) A HARVEY   DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Where is the hope for drug discovery? Let history tell the future

(2008) De-Xin Kong et al.   DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Harnessing Nature's wisdom. Turning to Nature for inspiration and avoiding her follies

(2008) Philip Hunter   EMBO REPORTS

Commentary: “A systems view on the future of medicine: Inspiration from Chinese medicine?”

(2008) R. Verpoorte et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY

Natural Products as Leads to Potential Drugs: An Old Process or the New Hope for Drug Discovery?

(2008) David J. Newman   JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

2007 FDA drug approvals: a year of flux

(2008) Bethan Hughes   NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY

Dissection of mechanisms of Chinese medicinal formula Realgar-Indigo naturalis as an effective treatment for promyelocytic leukemia

(2008) L. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synergy in natural medicines: implications for drug discovery

(2008) Xue-Juan Li et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Curcumin as “Curecumin”: From kitchen to clinic

(2007) Ajay Goel et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

How Many Traditional Chinese Medicine Components Have Been Recognized by Modern Western Medicine? A Chemoinformatic Analysis and Implications for Finding Multicomponent Drugs

(2007) De-Xin Kong et al.   ChemMedChem