Among the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds produced by plants, some may hold the key to treating human ailments ...

There are three types of CBD: broad spectrum, full spectrum, and isolate. They are defined by how many and how much of the additional ingredients are also extracted from the cannabis plant. These ...

Fruits and plant extracts contain bioactive compounds that can help treat or prevent diseases. To characterize and understand their mechanism of action, researchers from universities and research ...

A compound found in African wormwood -- a plant used medicinally for thousands of years to treat many types of illness -- could be effective against tuberculosis, according to a new study. A compound ...

Researchers of the Li Lab, led by Prof. Sijin Li, chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently developed a new yeast-based screening method to identify key enzymes that synthesize medicinal ...

The global cannabidiol, or CBD, market is exploding, with analysts projecting it will hit 22.05 billion by the year 2030. That's nearly 20% of the size of the global soft drinks market even though CBD ...

A study by Natalia Dudareva (clockwise from bottom), John Morgan, Rohit Jaini and Joshua Widhalm could overturn the textbook model for how scent-producing volatiles travel through plant cells to the ...

Share on Pinterest Could eating more plant-based foods help lower the risk of conditions like diabetes and heart disease? Lumina/Stocksy Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of developing heart disease.

Although it has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat conditions including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, regulatory bodies have warned against the use of celastrol due to the ...

Different types of magic mushrooms use unique biochemical paths to produce the same active compound by Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology edited by Stephanie Baum, ...