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Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 28 January 2021

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Summary

A wide-ranging review by an international taskforce on how natural products are being brought back into drug discovery. It discusses technical advances such as improved analytical tools, genome mining and engineering, and microbial culturing that help overcome historical barriers, and points to opportunities including new antimicrobials.

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Group author: the International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce. The full author list is available from the publisher.

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Atanasov AG, Zotchev SB, Dirsch VM, Orhan IE, Banach M, Rollinger JM, et al. Natural products in drug discovery: advances and opportunities. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 2021;20(3):200-216. doi:10.1038/s41573-020-00114-z

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