Wanted: bioprospecting consultants

Consultants.

Americo Abbruzzese Herbert L. Abrams Stanley J. Adelstein Milton H. Alper William A. Altemeir Alan G. Birtch Bruce R. Brener John R. Brooks Hathorn P. Brown Theodore Colton Oliver Cope Nathan P. Couch Chilton Crane Gustave J. Dammin Donald P. Dressler J. Englebert Dunphy Richard W. Dwight Robert M. Filler William P. Grigsby Richard E. Hicks David Littmann Emmanuel Mannarino William V. McDermott...

Diagnosis Wanted

Bioprospecting Marine Plankton

The ocean dominates the surface of our planet and plays a major role in regulating the biosphere. For example, the microscopic photosynthetic organisms living within provide 50% of the oxygen we breathe, and much of our food and mineral resources are extracted from the ocean. In a time of ecological crisis and major changes in our society, it is essential to turn our attention towards the sea t...

Bioprospecting: a CAM Frontier

With Volume 2 of eCAM, we begin to intensify the inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)-related natural products derived from plants and from animals (1). There will be an attempt to focus on products from animals, since we know that the literature tends to be ‘glutted’ with products derived from plants (1,2). In either case, both sources of natural products provide a veritab...

Bioprospecting plant-associated microbiomes.

There is growing demand for new bioactive compounds and biologicals for the pharmaceutical, agro- and food industries. Plant-associated microbes present an attractive and promising source to this end, but are nearly unexploited. Therefore, bioprospecting of plant microbiomes is gaining more and more attention. Due to their highly specialized and co-evolved genetic pool, plant microbiomes host a...