A New Golden Age of Natural Products Drug Discovery
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A New Golden Age of Natural Products Drug Discovery
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura, and Youyou Tu for the discovery of avermectins and artemisinin, respectively, therapies that revolutionized the treatment of devastating parasite diseases. With the recent technological advances, a New Golden Age of natural products drug discovery is dawning.
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.031